Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 7
You are welcome, brave Jason," said King Aetes. "
Who acts: You, King Aetes · What happens: be, say · 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 (You, King Aetes), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 welcome | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 welcome | cop |
| 3 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Jason | punct |
| 5 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Jason | amod |
| 6 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 welcome | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 welcome | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 welcome | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 welcome | conj |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Aetes | compound |
| 11 | Aetes | Aetes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 welcome | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 welcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | brave Jason obl; welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | King Aetes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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