Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 64
Say not such a word!" answered Ceres, indignantly. "
Who acts: you · What happens: not say, answer · To what, where: word, Ceres · 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 (you), 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 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Say | advmod |
| 3 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 word | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Say | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | parataxis |
| 9 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 indignantly | punct |
| 11 | indignantly | indignantly | ADV | _ | 8 answered | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | such word | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Ceres | indignantly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ceres=Eventuality |
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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