Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 31
"Come along quickly," whispered he in her ear, "or his majesty may change his royal mind.
Who acts: you, majesty, Quicksilver · What happens: come along, whisper, change, mind · To what, where: Quicksilver, ear, royal mind · 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 (you, majesty, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | along | along | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
| 7 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | advcl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 whispered | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 ear | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ear | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 whispered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 change | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 change | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 change | aux |
| 18 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Come | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mind | nmod:poss |
| 20 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mind | amod |
| 21 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 change | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come along in a quote | imperative | you not said here | along, quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | you not said here | Quicksilver | deal's ear | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 3 | change in a quote | may | Quicksilver's majesty | Quicksilver's royal mind | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mind in a quote | Quicksilver | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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