Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 21
"We will wait, then," answered the sea nymphs. "
Who acts: We, sea nymphs · What happens: wait, answer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, sea nymphs), 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 | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 then | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wait | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nymphs | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nymphs | compound |
| 12 | nymphs | nymph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | future | We | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the sea nymphs | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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