Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 69
"Pray excuse me," replied Phoebus, with an elegant obeisance. "
Who acts: Pray, Phoebus · What happens: excuse, reply · To what, where: Phoebus · 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 (Pray, Phoebus), 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 | _ | 3 excuse | punct |
| 2 | Pray | pray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 excuse | nsubj |
| 3 | excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 excuse | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 excuse | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 excuse | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Phoebus | Phoebus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 obeisance | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 obeisance | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 obeisance | det |
| 12 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 obeisance | amod |
| 13 | obeisance | obeisance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 obeisance | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 obeisance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excuse in a quote | infinitive | Pray | Phoebus | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Phoebus | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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