Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 101
"It is only a sleeping potion," said the enchantress to Prince Jason. "
Who acts: tail, enchantress · What happens: sleep, be, say · To what, where: sleeping potion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tail, enchantress), 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 | _ | 7 potion | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 potion | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 potion | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 potion | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 potion | det |
| 6 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 potion | amod |
| 7 | potion | potion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 potion | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 potion | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 enchantress | det |
| 12 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Jason | case |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Jason | compound |
| 15 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 enchantress | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep in a quote | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | tail | a sleeping potion | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the enchantress | 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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