Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 23
But I can see plainly enough, that you think my palace a dusky prison, and me the iron-hearted keeper of it.
Who acts: I, you, me · What happens: see, think, keeper · To what, where: palace
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, me), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 see | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 4 see | advmod |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 see | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 think | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | parataxis |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 palace | nmod:poss |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 think | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 prison | det |
| 14 | dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 prison | amod |
| 15 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 think | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 keeper | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 keeper | cc |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 keeper | nsubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 keeper | det |
| 20 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hearted | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 iron | punct |
| 22 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 keeper | amod |
| 23 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 think | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 keeper | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | I | enough, plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | you | my palace | a dusky prison obl:unmarked | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot palace=Theme | |||
| 3 | keeper | me | of keeper | tree rules |
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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