Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 26
See, I and my maidens have been weaving their figures into this piece of tapestry."
Who acts: you, I, companions · What happens: see, weave, figure · To what, where: figures, piece
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, I, companions), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 weaving | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 weaving | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 maidens | cc |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 maidens | nmod:poss |
| 6 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 I | conj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 weaving | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 weaving | aux |
| 9 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 See | advcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 figures | nmod:poss |
| 11 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 weaving | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 piece | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 piece | det |
| 14 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 weaving | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tapestry | case |
| 16 | tapestry | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | weave | present · perfect · progressive | I | companions's figures | this piece of tapestry | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent figure=Material into piece=Product | |||
| 3 | figure | companions = companion | nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=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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