Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 59

I have never been in that part of the universe; but the royal palace, I am told, is built in a very noble style of architecture, and of the most splendid and costly materials.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, not be, tell, build · To what, where: part, I, royal palace, noble style · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 part	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 part	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 part	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 part	det
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 universe	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 universe	det
10	universe	universe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 part	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 built	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 built	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
14	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 palace	amod
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 built	nsubj:pass
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 palace	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 told	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 told	aux:pass
19	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 palace	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 palace	punct
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 built	aux:pass
22	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 have	parataxis
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 style	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 style	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 noble	advmod
26	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 style	amod
27	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 built	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 architecture	case
29	architecture	architecture	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 style	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 materials	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 materials	cc
32	of	of	ADP	_	38 materials	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 materials	det
34	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	35 splendid	advmod
35	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 materials	amod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 costly	cc
37	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 splendid	conj
38	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	I			of the splendid materials	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle			that part	of the universe	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present · passive		I			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	build	present · passive		the royal palace	a noble style of architecture		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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