Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 12
"Well, son Phoenix," said Telephassa, sorrowfully, "you have grown to be a man, and must do as you judge best.
Who acts: son Phoenix, you · What happens: say, grow, be, do, judge · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son Phoenix, 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Phoenix | compound |
| 5 | Phoenix | Phoenix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Phoenix | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Phoenix | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Telephassa | Telephassa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sorrowfully | punct |
| 11 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grown | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 grown | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 grown | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 grown | aux |
| 16 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 man | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 man | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grown | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 do | cc |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 grown | conj |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 judge | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 judge | nsubj |
| 27 | judge | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | advcl |
| 28 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 27 judge | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | son Phoenix | sorrowfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grow in a quote | present · perfect | you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | must | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | judge in a quote | present | you | well property | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
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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