Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 32
While the king talked with Jason, a beautiful young woman was standing behind the throne.
Who acts: king, beautiful young woman · What happens: talk, stand · To what, where: throne
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 (king, beautiful young woman), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 talked | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talked | nsubj |
| 4 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Jason | case |
| 6 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 talked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 standing | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 standing | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 standing | aux |
| 13 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 talked | advcl |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 throne | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 throne | det |
| 16 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 standing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | the king | with Jason | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with jason=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | a beautiful young woman | the throne | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind throne=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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