Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 83
"Why, 'tis a very wonderful affair," answered one of his new companions. "
Who acts: wonderful affair · What happens: answer · To what, where: tis
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 (wonderful affair), 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 | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 answered | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tis | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 tis | punct |
| 5 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 affair | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 wonderful | advmod |
| 8 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 affair | amod |
| 9 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 affair | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 affair | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 answered | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 companions | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 companions | nmod:poss |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 companions | amod |
| 17 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | a wonderful affair | tis | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality |
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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