Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 92
"Must we wait long for harvest time?" he inquired of Medea, who was now standing by his side.
Who acts: we, Jason, Medea · What happens: wait, inquire, stand · 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 (we, Jason, Medea), 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 | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 2 | Must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 wait | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | compound |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wait | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 inquired | nsubj |
| 12 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Medea | case |
| 14 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 inquired | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 standing | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 standing | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 standing | aux |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 standing | advmod |
| 19 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 Medea | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 side | nmod:poss |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 standing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | must | we | time | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Jason | of Medea | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of medea=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stand | past · progressive | Medea | now | by Jason's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=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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