Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 5
Keep it in your hand, and smell of it frequently after you enter the palace, and while you are talking with the enchantress.
Who acts: you, flower · What happens: keep, enter, talk, smell · To what, where: flower, hand, palace
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, flower), 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 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 smell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 smell | cc |
| 8 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 smell | nmod |
| 11 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 1 Keep | advmod |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 enter | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 enter | nsubj |
| 14 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enter | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 talking | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 talking | cc |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 talking | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 talking | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 talking | aux |
| 22 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Keep | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 enchantress | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 enchantress | det |
| 25 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 talking | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | flower | your hand | smell of flower obl; frequently property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location | ||
| 2 | enter | present | you | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | talk | present · progressive | you | with the enchantress | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with enchantress=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | smell | flower | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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