Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 22

"Seat yourselves," answered the image (for it had known what had ought to be done from the very first, and was only waiting for the question to be put),--"seat yourselves, and handle your oars, and let Orpheus play upon his harp."

Who acts: image, Orpheus · What happens: seat, answer, know, do, wait, put · To what, where: yourselves, image, oars, Orpheus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (image, Orpheus), 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 Seat	punct
2	Seat	seat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answered	ccomp
3	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Seat	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Seat	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Seat	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 image	det
8	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	48 let	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 known	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 known	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 known	aux
13	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 let	advcl
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 done	obj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux
16	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux
17	to	to	PART	_	19 done	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 done	aux:pass
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 known	ccomp
20	from	from	ADP	_	23 first	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 first	det
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 first	advmod
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 done	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 waiting	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 waiting	cc
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 waiting	aux
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 waiting	advmod
28	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 known	parataxis
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 question	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 question	det
31	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 waiting	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	34 put	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 put	aux:pass
34	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 question	acl
35	)	)	PUNCT	_	34 put	punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 seat	punct
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 seat	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 seat	punct
39	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 question	conj
40	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 seat	nmod:unmarked
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 handle	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 handle	cc
43	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 waiting	conj
44	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 oars	nmod:poss
45	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 handle	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 let	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 let	cc
48	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 image	appos
49	Orpheus	Orpheus	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 let	obj
50	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 let	xcomp
51	upon	upon	ADP	_	53 harp	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 harp	nmod:poss
53	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 play	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 let	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seat in a quote	infinitive		yourselves		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location yourselves=Value
2	answer speech: assert	past	the image			tree rules
3	know	past · perfect · passive		image		tree rules
4	do	ought · past · passive				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
5	wait	past · progressive			for the question and seat yourselves	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	put	to-infinitive · passive				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»
7	handle in a quote	infinitive		your oars		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Theme
8	let in a quote	infinitive		Orpheus		tree rules
9	play in a quote	infinitive	Orpheus not said here		upon Orpheus's harp	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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