Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 113
"We will talk of that by and by," answered Pluto. "
Who acts: We, Pluto · What happens: talk, answer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Pluto), 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 | _ | 4 talk | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 talk | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 talk | aux |
| 4 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 talk | obl |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 answered | mark |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 by | cc |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 by | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talk | advcl |
| 13 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talk | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk in a quote | future | We | of that | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Pluto | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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