Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 23
"Sacred oracle of Delphi," said he, "whither shall I go next in quest of my dear sister Europa?"
Who acts: Sacred oracle, Delphi, dear sister · What happens: say, go, quest · To what, where: quest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (Sacred oracle, Delphi, dear sister), 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 | _ | 3 oracle | punct |
| 2 | Sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 oracle | amod |
| 3 | oracle | oracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Delphi | case |
| 5 | Delphi | Delphi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 oracle | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 oracle | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 oracle | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 he | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 12 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 go | advmod |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | next | next | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 quest | case |
| 18 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sister | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sister | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sister | amod |
| 22 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 quest | nmod |
| 23 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sister | appos |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Sacred oracle of Delphi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | shall | Delphi | quest of my dear sister | next, whither property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in quest=Location | |||
| 3 | quest in a quote | my dear sister | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=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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