Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 46
Circe, my father's sister, taught me to be one, and I could tell you, if I pleased, who was the old woman with the peacock, the pomegranate, and the cuckoo staff, whom you carried over the river; and, likewise, who it is that speaks through the lips of the oaken image, that stands in the prow of your galley.
Who acts: Circe, I, cuckoo staff, oaken image · What happens: teach, be, tell, carry, stand · To what, where: me, one, you, old woman, river, lips · 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 (Circe, I, cuckoo staff, oaken image), 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 | Circe | circe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taught | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sister | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 father | case |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Circe | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Circe | punct |
| 8 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 taught | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 one | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 one | cop |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 taught | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tell | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | aux |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 taught | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pleased | punct |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 pleased | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 pleased | nsubj |
| 22 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tell | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 woman | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 woman | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 woman | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 woman | det |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 woman | amod |
| 28 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pleased | parataxis |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 peacock | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 peacock | det |
| 31 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 woman | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 pomegranate | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 pomegranate | det |
| 34 | pomegranate | pomegranate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 woman | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 carried | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 carried | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 staff | det |
| 38 | cuckoo | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 staff | compound |
| 39 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 carried | nsubj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 carried | punct |
| 41 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 carried | obj |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 carried | nsubj |
| 43 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taught | parataxis |
| 44 | over | over | ADP | _ | 46 river | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 river | det |
| 46 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 carried | obl |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 56 speaks | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 speaks | cc |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 and | punct |
| 50 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 56 speaks | advmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 speaks | punct |
| 52 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 56 speaks | nsubj |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 speaks | nsubj |
| 54 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 speaks | cop |
| 55 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 56 speaks | mark |
| 56 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 carried | conj |
| 57 | through | through | ADP | _ | 59 lips | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 lips | det |
| 59 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 speaks | obl |
| 60 | of | of | ADP | _ | 63 image | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 image | det |
| 62 | oaken | oaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 63 image | amod |
| 63 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 lips | nmod |
| 64 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 66 stands | punct |
| 65 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 66 stands | nsubj |
| 66 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 63 image | acl:relcl |
| 67 | in | in | ADP | _ | 69 prow | case |
| 68 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 69 prow | det |
| 69 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 stands | obl |
| 70 | of | of | ADP | _ | 72 galley | case |
| 71 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 72 galley | nmod:poss |
| 72 | galley | galley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 prow | nmod |
| 73 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | Circe | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | could | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the old woman and the pomegranate | with the peacock | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | carry | past | the cuckoo staff | the river | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the lips of the oaken image | likewise, speak property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | stand | present | the oaken image | the prow of your galley | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in prow=Location |
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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