Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 82

"Cut me off!" said the branch, as soon as it could speak distinctly; "cut me off! cut me off! and carve me into a figure-head for your galley."

Who acts: you, branch, foliage · What happens: cut off, say, speak, carve · To what, where: branch, Jason, figure head · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, branch, foliage), 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 Cut	punct
2	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Cut	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 Cut	compound:prt
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Cut	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 branch	det
9	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 soon	punct
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 soon	advmod
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 Cut	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 speak	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 speak	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 speak	aux
16	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 soon	advcl
17	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	16 speak	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct
20	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Cut	advcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 cut	obj
22	off	off	ADP	_	20 cut	compound:prt
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct
24	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Cut	advcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 cut	iobj
26	off	off	ADP	_	24 cut	compound:prt
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 carve	cc
29	carve	carve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Cut	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 carve	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	35 head	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 head	det
33	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 head	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 figure	punct
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carve	obl
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 galley	case
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 galley	nmod:poss
38	galley	galley	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 head	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut off in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the branch = branch			soon property	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	the branch					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	could	foliage				distinctly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cut off in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	Jason				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector i=Eventuality
5	cut off in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		Jason			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector i=Eventuality
6	carve in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	Jason		a figure head for your galley		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent i=Material into head=Product

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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