Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 6
Especially when she offers you food, or a draught of wine out of her goblet, be careful to fill your nostrils with the flower's fragrance.
Who acts: Guard · What happens: offer, be, fill · To what, where: food, you, nostrils
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 (Guard), 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 | Especially | especially | ADV | _ | 4 offers | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 offers | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 offers | nsubj |
| 4 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 offers | iobj |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offers | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 draught | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 draught | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 draught | det |
| 10 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offers | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wine | case |
| 12 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 draught | nmod |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 goblet | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 goblet | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 goblet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wine | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 careful | punct |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 careful | cop |
| 19 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 draught | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 fill | mark |
| 21 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 careful | xcomp |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 nostrils | nmod:poss |
| 23 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fill | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 fragrance | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flower | det |
| 26 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fragrance | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 flower | case |
| 28 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fill | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 offers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | present | Guard | food | you | especially property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal food=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | infinitive | Guard not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fill | to-infinitive | Guard not said here | your nostrils | with the flower's fragrance | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nostril=Patient with fragrance=Instrument |
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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