Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 70

For now I know that thou art he of whom Quicksilver forewarned me, the most prudent of mortals, against whom no enchantments can prevail.

Who acts: I, Quicksilver, enchantments · What happens: know, forewarn, prevail · 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 (I, Quicksilver, enchantments), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 now	case
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 know	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 art	mark
6	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 art	nsubj
7	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 art	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 whom	case
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 he	nmod
11	Quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 forewarned	nsubj
12	forewarned	forewarn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 whom	acl:relcl
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 forewarned	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 prudent	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 prudent	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 prudent	advmod
17	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 forewarned	parataxis
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 mortals	case
19	mortals	mortal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 prudent	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 prevail	punct
21	against	against	ADP	_	22 whom	case
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 prevail	obl
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 enchantments	det
24	enchantments	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 prevail	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 prevail	aux
26	prevail	prevail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 forewarned	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	present	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	forewarn	past	Quicksilver	me	tree rules
3	prevail	can	no enchantments		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against whom=Location

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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