Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 30
"See the poor lad," said a cracked voice close to his side. "
Who acts: cracked voice · What happens: see, say, crack · To what, where: poor lad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (cracked voice), 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 | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lad | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lad | amod |
| 5 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 See | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 10 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 voice | amod |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 voice | amod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 side | nmod:poss |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 close | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | infinitive | the poor lad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lad=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a cracked voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | crack | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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