Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 61

Primrose is now almost a young lady, and, Eustace tells me, is just as saucy as ever.

Who acts: Primrose, Eustace · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: young lady, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Primrose, Eustace), 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	Primrose	primrose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lady	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lady	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lady	advmod
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 lady	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tells	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tells	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tells	nsubj
12	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lady	parataxis
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tells	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saucy	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 saucy	cop
16	just	just	ADV	_	18 saucy	advmod
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 saucy	advmod
18	saucy	saucy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tells	conj
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 ever	case
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 saucy	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lady	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Primrose	a young lady		now	almost property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	Eustace		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	is	present	Eustace not said here				saucy 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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