Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 93
"Whether sooner or later, it will be sure to come," answered the princess. "
Who acts: it, princess · What happens: be, come, answer · 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 (it, princess), 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 | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 2 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 sure | mark |
| 3 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 sure | advmod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 later | cc |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 sooner | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sooner | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sure | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sure | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sure | cop |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sure | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | it | soon, sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the princess | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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