Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 25
"Better chosen, and better handled," replied Eustace Bright. "
What happens: choose, handle, reply · To what, where: Better, Eustace Bright · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 chosen | punct |
| 2 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 handled | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 handled | cc |
| 6 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 handled | advmod |
| 7 | handled | handle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 chosen | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 handled | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 handled | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chosen | conj |
| 11 | Eustace | Eustace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bright | compound |
| 12 | Bright | Bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chosen | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose in a quote | participle · passive | Better | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | handle in a quote | participle | well property | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Eustace Bright | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bright=Topic |
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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