Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 99
"You well know what gormandizers they were," replied Quicksilver; and rogue that he was, he could not help laughing at the joke. "
Who acts: You, Quicksilver, rogue · What happens: know, reply, not be, laugh · To what, where: rogue, joke · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Quicksilver, rogue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 replied | obj |
| 6 | gormandizers | gormandizer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 were | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gormandizers | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gormandizers | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 gormandizers | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 12 | Quicksilver | quicksilver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 rogue | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rogue | cc |
| 15 | rogue | rogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 help | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 help | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 help | cop |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 help | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 help | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 help | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 help | advmod |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 rogue | acl |
| 24 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 help | xcomp |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 joke | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 joke | det |
| 27 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 laughing | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | You | rogue | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Quicksilver | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is | could · past | Quicksilver | rogue not said here | help property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | laugh not said to happen | gerund | rogue not said here | the joke | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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