Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 92

"And now," cried he, as he stood gazing at the calm, majestic face of the statue, "I must go to the Talking Oak and inquire what next to do."

Who acts: carver, I · What happens: cry, stand, gaze, go, inquire, do · To what, where: carver, Talking Oak · 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 (carver, I), 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	_	6 cried	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 cried	cc
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 cried	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 now	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 stood	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stood	nsubj
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
12	gazing	gaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stood	xcomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	18 face	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 face	det
15	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 face	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 calm	punct
17	majestic	majestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 face	amod
18	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gazing	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 statue	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 statue	det
21	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 face	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 stood	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 Oak	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Oak	det
29	Talking	Talking	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Oak	compound
30	Oak	Oak	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 inquire	cc
32	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	conj
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 do	obj
34	next	next	ADV	_	36 do	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 do	mark
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 inquire	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		carver		now		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	stand	past	carver					vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	gaze	gerund	carver not said here				at the calm majestic face of the statue	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme
4	go in a quote	must	I		the Talking Oak			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to oak=Initial_Location
5	inquire speech: other in a quote	infinitive	I not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	do in a quote	to-infinitive					next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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