Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 57
At the appointed hour he met the beautiful Medea on the marble steps of the king's palace.
Who acts: man · What happens: appoint, meet, step · To what, where: beautiful Medea, palace
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 (man), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 3 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hour | amod |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Medea | det |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Medea | amod |
| 9 | Medea | medea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 steps | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 steps | det |
| 12 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 steps | compound |
| 13 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 met | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 palace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 steps | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | meet | past | man | the beautiful Medea | hour | on the marble steps of the king's palace | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medea=Co-Agent | ||
| 3 | step | the king's palace | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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