Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 103
From brute beasts you have restored us to the condition of men again."
Who acts: you · What happens: restore, condition · To what, where: us, condition, brute beasts, men
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 beasts | case |
| 2 | brute | brute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beasts | amod |
| 3 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 restored | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 restored | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 restored | aux |
| 6 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 restored | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 condition | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 condition | det |
| 10 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 restored | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 condition | nmod |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 men | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 restored | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 restored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restore | present · perfect | you | us | the condition of men | brute beasts | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Theme to condition=Recipient | ||
| 2 | condition | men | nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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