Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 73
I will show thee true hospitality, and even give myself to be thy slave, and this magnificent palace to be henceforth thy home."
Who acts: I · What happens: show, give, be · To what, where: thee, myself, slave, home
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 show | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | aux |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 show | obj |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hospitality | amod |
| 6 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 show | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 give | cc |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 give | advmod |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 show | parataxis |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 slave | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 slave | cop |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 slave | nmod:poss |
| 15 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 palace | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 palace | cc |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 palace | det |
| 19 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 palace | amod |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slave | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 home | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 home | cop |
| 23 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 25 home | advmod |
| 24 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 home | nmod:poss |
| 25 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 palace | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | future | I | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient hospitality=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | myself | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | thy slave and this magnificent palace | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | thy home | henceforth 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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