Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 64
"Wicked Circe," cried he, in a terrible voice, "this sword shall put an end to thy enchantments.
Who acts: Wicked Circe, sword, thy · What happens: cry, put, enchant · To what, where: virtue, terrible voice, end · 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 (Wicked Circe, sword, thy), 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 | _ | 3 Circe | punct |
| 2 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Circe | amod |
| 3 | Circe | circe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Circe | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 voice | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 voice | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 11 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 voice | amod |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 sword | det |
| 16 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | aux |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | conj |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 enchantments | case |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 enchantments | nmod:poss |
| 23 | enchantments | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Wicked Circe | virtue | a terrible voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 2 | put in a quote | shall | this sword | a end | to thy enchantments | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal | |||
| 3 | enchant in a quote | thy | nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: poss=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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