Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 8
Quicksilver then gave him some further advice how to behave, and bidding him be bold and prudent, again assured him that, powerful as Circe was, he would have a fair prospect of coming safely out of her enchanted palace.
Who acts: Quicksilver, bidding, fair prospect · What happens: give, behave, bid, be, assure, have · To what, where: further advice, fox, that, fair prospect, enchanted palace
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 (Quicksilver, bidding, fair prospect), 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 | Quicksilver | quicksilver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 advice | det |
| 6 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 advice | amod |
| 7 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 behave | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 behave | mark |
| 10 | behave | behave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 advice | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bold | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bold | cc |
| 13 | bidding | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 bold | csubj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bidding | obj |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bold | cop |
| 16 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 prudent | cc |
| 18 | prudent | prudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bold | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 assured | punct |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 assured | advmod |
| 21 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 assured | iobj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 assured | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 powerful | punct |
| 25 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 assured | parataxis |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 Circe | case |
| 27 | Circe | Circe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 powerful | obl |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 powerful | cop |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 have | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 have | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 have | aux |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 prospect | det |
| 34 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 prospect | amod |
| 35 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 have | obj |
| 36 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 37 coming | mark |
| 37 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 prospect | acl |
| 38 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 37 coming | advmod |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 43 palace | case |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 palace | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 palace | nmod:poss |
| 42 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 palace | amod |
| 43 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 coming | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Quicksilver | some further advice | fox | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient advice=Theme | ||
| 2 | behave | to-infinitive | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bid | gerund | fox | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | bidding | bold property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | bidding not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | assure | past | Quicksilver not said here | that | fox | again | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition he=Beneficiary that=Theme | ||
| 7 | is | past | as Circe; powerful property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | have | would | Quicksilver | a fair prospect | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prospect=Patient | ||||
| 9 | come | gerund | a fair prospect not said here | Circe's enchanted palace | safely property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 10 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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