Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 17
Your majesty must blame the rudeness of your subjects, who have raised all this tumult because one of my feet happens to be bare."
Who acts: majesty, one · What happens: blame, raise, happen, be · To what, where: rudeness, subjects
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (majesty, one), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blame | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 blame | aux |
| 4 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rudeness | det |
| 6 | rudeness | rudeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blame | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 subjects | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 9 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rudeness | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 raised | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 raised | aux |
| 13 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 subjects | acl:relcl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 tumult | det:predet |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 tumult | det |
| 16 | tumult | tumult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 raised | obj |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 happens | mark |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 happens | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 feet | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 feet | nmod:poss |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 22 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blame | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 bare | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 bare | cop |
| 25 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 happens | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blame | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 blame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | must | Your majesty | the rudeness of your subjects | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rudeness=Theme | ||||
| 2 | raise | present · perfect · passive | your subjects | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme tumult=Destination | |||||
| 3 | happen | present | one of my feet | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | one of my feet not said here | bare property | 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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