Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 48
"Then," said she, very scornfully, "neither are you strong enough to pull King Pelias off his throne.
Who acts: mother, neither · What happens: say, be, pull · To what, where: King, throne · 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 (mother, neither), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 scornfully | punct |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 scornfully | advmod |
| 9 | scornfully | scornfully | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 strong | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 strong | punct |
| 12 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 strong | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 strong | cop |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 strong | nsubj |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | conj |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 strong | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 pull | mark |
| 18 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 strong | advcl |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 pull | obj |
| 20 | Pelias | Pelias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 King | flat |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 throne | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 throne | nmod:poss |
| 23 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pull | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | mother | then | scornfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | neither | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pull in a quote | to-infinitive | neither not said here | King | King's throne | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent king=Theme off throne=Initial_Location |
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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