Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 62
"What in the world, my little fellow," ejaculated Hercules, "may you be?"
Who acts: little fellow, you · What happens: ejaculate, be · To what, where: Hercules
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., 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 (little fellow, 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 What | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 world | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 What | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fellow | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fellow | nmod:poss |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fellow | amod |
| 9 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 world | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ejaculated | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ejaculated | punct |
| 12 | ejaculated | ejaculate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 fellow | acl |
| 13 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ejaculated | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 be | punct |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 be | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 be | nsubj |
| 18 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 What | parataxis |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 be | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ejaculate | participle | my little fellow not said here | Hercules | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | may | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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