Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 41
"Bring hither," said she, "the goblet that is set apart for kings to drink out of.
Who acts: hand · What happens: bring, say, set apart, drink out · To what, where: goblet · 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 (hand), 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 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 2 Bring | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 goblet | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 goblet | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 goblet | det |
| 11 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 set | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 set | aux:pass |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 goblet | acl:relcl |
| 15 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 14 set | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 kings | case |
| 17 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 set | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 drink | mark |
| 19 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 set | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 drink | advmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 out | fixed |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | infinitive | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | hand | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | set apart in a quote | present · passive | the goblet | for kings; apart property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for king=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | drink out in a quote | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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