Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 11
This, as your majesty is aware, is now hanging on a tree here at Colchis; and I humbly solicit your gracious leave to take it away."
Who acts: This, I · What happens: be, hang, solicit, take away · To what, where: tree, gracious leave, majesty
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 aware | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 aware | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 aware | mark |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 aware | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 aware | cop |
| 7 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hanging | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hanging | aux |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 hanging | advmod |
| 11 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 aware | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hanging | obl |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 hanging | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 Colchis | case |
| 17 | Colchis | Colchis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hanging | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 solicit | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 solicit | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 solicit | nsubj |
| 21 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 22 solicit | advmod |
| 22 | solicit | solicit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 aware | conj |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 leave | nmod:poss |
| 24 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 leave | amod |
| 25 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 solicit | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 take | mark |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 solicit | advcl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 take | obj |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 take | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 aware | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 aware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hang | present · progressive | a tree; here | now | at Colchis | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location | |||
| 3 | solicit | present | I | your gracious leave | humbly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | take away | to-infinitive | I not said here | majesty | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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