Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 79
There was no time, just then, to inquire what the Speaking Oak had said.
Who acts: time, Speaking Oak · What happens: be, inquire, say · 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 (time, Speaking Oak), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 inquire | punct |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 then | advmod |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 inquire | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 inquire | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 inquire | mark |
| 10 | inquire | inquire | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 said | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Oak | det |
| 13 | Speaking | Speaking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Oak | compound |
| 14 | Oak | Oak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | aux |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 inquire | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no time | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the Speaking Oak | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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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