Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 44

Were she now here, it would delight her to see me offering this wine to my honored guest."

Who acts: child, butler, me · What happens: be, delight, see, offer, honor · To what, where: child, me, wine, honored guest

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 (child, butler, me), 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 here	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 here	advmod
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 delight	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 delight	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 delight	aux
8	delight	delight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 delight	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 delight	advcl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 see	obj
13	offering	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 see	xcomp
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 wine	det
15	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 offering	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 guest	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 guest	nmod:poss
18	honored	honor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 guest	amod
19	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 offering	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 delight	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 delight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	child			now	here property	tree rules
2	delight	would	butler	child				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
3	see	to-infinitive	butler not said here	me				tree rules
4	offer	gerund	me not said here	this wine	my honored guest			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent wine=Theme to guest=Goal
5	honor	participle						vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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