Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 3
"Take this flower, King Ulysses," said he. "
Who acts: Ulysses · What happens: take, say · To what, where: flower · 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 (Ulysses), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 flower | det |
| 4 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ulysses | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | infinitive | this flower | Ulysses King obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ulysses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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