Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 76
"On these conditions," said he, "I consent to spare your life.
Who acts: Ulysses · What happens: say, consent, spare · To what, where: conditions, life · 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 (Ulysses), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 conditions | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 conditions | det |
| 4 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 conditions | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 conditions | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 consent | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 consent | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 consent | nsubj |
| 12 | consent | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 spare | mark |
| 14 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 consent | xcomp |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spare | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ulysses | this conditions | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | consent in a quote | present | Ulysses | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spare in a quote | to-infinitive | Ulysses not said here | your life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=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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