Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 26
"My master Chiron," replied Jason, "taught me, long ago, the story of Cadmus.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: reply, teach · To what, where: Jason · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jason), 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 | _ | 3 master | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 master | nmod:poss |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | Chiron | Chiron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 master | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 master | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 master | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taught | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 taught | punct |
| 11 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 taught | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ago | punct |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 ago | advmod |
| 15 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 taught | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 story | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 story | det |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taught | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Cadmus | case |
| 20 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 story | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Jason | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | teach speech: other in a quote | past | Jason not said here | Jason | ago property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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