Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 57
"Wretch," cried Circe, giving him a smart stroke with her wand, "how dare you keep your human shape a moment longer!
Who acts: Wretch, you · What happens: cry, give, keep · To what, where: smart stroke, Wretch, dare · 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 (Wretch, you), 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 Wretch | punct |
| 2 | Wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wretch | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wretch | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Circe | Circe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 giving | punct |
| 8 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 giving | iobj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 stroke | det |
| 11 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stroke | amod |
| 12 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 giving | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 wand | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 giving | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 keep | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 keep | punct |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 keep | advmod |
| 19 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keep | obl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 keep | nsubj |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | advcl |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 shape | nmod:poss |
| 23 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shape | amod |
| 24 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keep | obj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 moment | det |
| 26 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keep | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 keep | advmod |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Wretch | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | gerund | Wretch not said here | a smart stroke | Wretch | with wine's wand | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient stroke=Theme | ||
| 3 | keep in a quote | present | you | dare | moment | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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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