Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 44
"Yes, Prince Jason," answered Medea, with a smile, "you have hit upon the truth.
Who acts: Medea, you · What happens: answer, hit · 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 (Medea, 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 | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Jason | compound |
| 5 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Yes | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 smile | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 smile | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 smile | det |
| 13 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Medea | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hit | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 hit | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 hit | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hit | aux |
| 18 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 answered | parataxis |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 truth | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 truth | det |
| 21 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hit | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Medea | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hit in a quote | present · perfect | you | upon the truth | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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