Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 94
The one thing which my palace needs is a merry little maid, to run upstairs and down, and cheer up the rooms with her smile.
Who acts: palace, one thing · What happens: need, be, run, cheer up, smile · To what, where: one thing, merry little maid, rooms
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 (palace, one thing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thing | nummod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 maid | nsubj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 needs | obj |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 palace | nmod:poss |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 needs | nsubj |
| 7 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thing | acl:relcl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 maid | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 maid | det |
| 10 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 maid | amod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 maid | amod |
| 12 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 run | mark |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 maid | parataxis |
| 16 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 15 run | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 down | cc |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 upstairs | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cheer | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cheer | cc |
| 21 | cheer | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 cheer | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rooms | det |
| 24 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cheer | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 smile | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 smile | nmod:poss |
| 27 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cheer | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 maid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | my palace | the one thing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the one thing | a merry little maid | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | upstairs property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cheer up | present | the rooms | with palace's smile | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with smile=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | smile | palace | nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=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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