Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 67
"O, daughter of the Speaking Oak," cried he, all out of breath, "we need your wisdom more than ever before!
Who acts: daughter, we · What happens: cry, need · To what, where: possibility, wisdom · 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 (daughter, we), 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 | _ | 4 daughter | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 daughter | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 daughter | punct |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Oak | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Oak | det |
| 7 | Speaking | Speaking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Oak | compound |
| 8 | Oak | Oak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 daughter | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 all | punct |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 cried | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 breath | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 breath | case |
| 17 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 all | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 need | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 need | punct |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 need | nsubj |
| 21 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | conj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 need | obj |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 need | advmod |
| 25 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 27 before | mark |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 before | advmod |
| 27 | before | before | ADV | _ | 24 more | advcl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | daughter of the Speaking Oak | possibility | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | need in a quote | present | we | your wisdom | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wisdom=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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