Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 69
Spare me, royal and wise Ulysses.
Who acts: you · What happens: spare · To what, where: me
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 (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 | Spare | spare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Spare | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 royal | punct |
| 4 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Spare | parataxis |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Ulysses | cc |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Ulysses | amod |
| 7 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 royal | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Spare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | imperative | you not said here | me | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset |
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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