Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 12
Medea, however, bade him snatch up a stone from the ground.
What happens: snatch up · To what, where: bade, ground
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: 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 | Medea | medea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 however | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Medea | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 snatch | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 snatch | obl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bade | obj |
| 7 | snatch | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 snatch | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stone | det |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 snatch | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 snatch | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 snatch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch up | present | bade | the ground | however property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent stone=Theme from ground=Source |
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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