Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 42

To tell your majesty the truth, they look so very strangely that I am inclined to think them clouds, which have chanced to take something like human shapes."

Who acts: objects · What happens: tell, look, incline, think, chance, take · To what, where: majesty, I, objects, clouds, something · 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 (objects), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 majesty	nmod:poss
4	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 look	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 look	nsubj
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	advcl
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 strangely	advmod
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 strangely	advmod
12	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	9 look	advmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 inclined	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 inclined	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 inclined	aux:pass
16	inclined	incline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 look	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 think	mark
18	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 inclined	xcomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 think	obj
20	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 think	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 chanced	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 chanced	nsubj:pass
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 chanced	aux
24	chanced	chance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 clouds	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 chanced	xcomp
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 take	obj
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 shapes	case
29	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shapes	amod
30	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 take	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		your majesty		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient truth=Topic
2	look	present	objects = object		strangely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	incline	present · passive		I		tree rules
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive		objects = object		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme cloud=Attribute
5	chance	present · perfect · passive		clouds		tree rules
6	take	to-infinitive		something	like human shapes	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme

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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