Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 9

What will the king say to the one-sandaled man?"

Who acts: king · What happens: say, sandal · To what, where: one sandaled man · 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 (king), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	11 man	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 man	nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
10	sandaled	sandal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	future	the king		the one sandaled man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to man=Recipient
2	sandal	participle							tree rules

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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