Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 33
"As for yourself, valiant sir," said Circe, "judging by the dignity of your aspect, I take you to be nothing less than a king.
Who acts: Circe · What happens: say, judge, take, be · To what, where: you, nothing · 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 (Circe), 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 yourself | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 yourself | case |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 2 As | fixed |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sir | punct |
| 6 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sir | amod |
| 7 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yourself | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yourself | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 yourself | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Circe | Circe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 judging | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 judging | punct |
| 14 | judging | judge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 dignity | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dignity | det |
| 17 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 judging | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 aspect | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 aspect | nmod:poss |
| 20 | aspect | aspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dignity | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 take | nsubj |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 nothing | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 nothing | cop |
| 27 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 take | obj |
| 28 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 nothing | amod |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 king | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 king | det |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 less | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Circe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | judge in a quote | gerund | Circe not said here | by the dignity of your aspect | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | present | Circe | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | nothing | tree rules |
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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