Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 53
"Drink, my noble guest," said Circe, smiling, as she presented him with the goblet. "
Who acts: Drink, Circe · What happens: say, smile, present · To what, where: guest · 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 (Drink, 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 | _ | 2 Drink | punct |
| 2 | Drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 guest | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 guest | nmod:poss |
| 5 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 guest | amod |
| 6 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Drink | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 guest | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 guest | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Circe | Circe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 smiling | punct |
| 12 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 presented | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 presented | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 presented | nsubj |
| 16 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 presented | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 goblet | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 goblet | det |
| 20 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 presented | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 presented | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Drink and my noble guest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | Drink and my noble guest not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | present | past | Circe | guest | with the goblet | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with goblet=Theme |
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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