Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 68

"Spare me!" cried Circe. "

Who acts: Circe · What happens: spare, cry · To what, where: Circe · 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 (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 Spare	punct
2	Spare	spare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	parataxis
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Spare	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Spare	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Spare	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Circe	Circe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Circe	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Circe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare in a quote	infinitive		Circe					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset
2	cry speech: express	past	Circe						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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