Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 14
"Who are you?" cried the king, with a terrible frown. "
Who acts: you · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 Who | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Who | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Who | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 frown | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 frown | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 frown | det |
| 13 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 frown | amod |
| 14 | frown | frown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 frown | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 frown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the king | with a terrible frown | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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