Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 60
Thou hast quaffed off my wine, and canst be man no longer."
What happens: quaff off, be · To what, where: Thou, man
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: 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 quaffed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 quaffed | aux |
| 3 | quaffed | quaff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 quaffed | compound:prt |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wine | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quaffed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 man | cc |
| 9 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 man | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 man | cop |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quaffed | parataxis |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 longer | advmod |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 man | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 quaffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quaff off | present · perfect · passive | Thou | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | can | man | long property | tree rules |
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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