Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 30
I know not how many kind things she might have said to the disconsolate king of the mines, had not Quicksilver hurried her way.
Who acts: I, deal, Quicksilver · What happens: not know, say, have, hurry · To what, where: many kind things, disconsolate king, way · Speech: someone speaks here
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, deal, Quicksilver), 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 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 know | advmod |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 many | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 6 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 know | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | aux |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 14 | disconsolate | disconsolate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 king | amod |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mines | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mines | det |
| 18 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 king | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 Quicksilver | advmod |
| 22 | Quicksilver | quicksilver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hurried | nsubj |
| 23 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 had | ccomp |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 way | nmod:poss |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hurried | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present | I | many kind things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | might · perfect | deal | many kind things not said here | the disconsolate king of the mines | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to king=Recipient | |||
| 3 | have | past | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hurry | past | Quicksilver | deal's way | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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