Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 104
"Do not put yourselves to the trouble of thanking me," said the wise king. "
Who acts: you, trouble, wise king · What happens: not put, thank, say · To what, where: yourselves, wise king · Speech: someone speaks here
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, trouble, wise king), 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 put | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 put | advmod |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 trouble | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trouble | det |
| 8 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 thanking | mark |
| 10 | thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 trouble | acl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 thanking | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 16 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 king | amod |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not put in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | yourselves | to the trouble | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Goal | |||
| 2 | thank speech: thank in a quote | gerund | the trouble not said here | the wise king = king | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the wise king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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