Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 41
"Princess," he exclaimed, "you seem indeed very wise and very powerful.
Who acts: instant, you · What happens: exclaim, seem · To what, where: Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (instant, you), 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 Princess | punct |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Princess | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seem | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 seem | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 seem | nsubj |
| 10 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 exclaimed | conj |
| 11 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 13 wise | advmod |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 wise | advmod |
| 13 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seem | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 powerful | cc |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 powerful | advmod |
| 16 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wise | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | instant | Princess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | seem in a quote | present | you | wise property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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