Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 1
"Yes, my friends," said he to them, "this is to be our home.
Who acts: friends, this · What happens: say, be · To what, where: them, home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (friends, this), 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 | _ | 5 friends | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 friends | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friends | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friends | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 friends | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 home | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 home | punct |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 home | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 home | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 home | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 home | cop |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 home | nmod:poss |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my friends | them = they | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | our home | tree rules |
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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