Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 13
"Throw it among them quickly!" cried she. "
Who acts: you · What happens: throw, cry · To what, where: stone, dragon · 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 (you), 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 | _ | 2 Throw | punct |
| 2 | Throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Throw | obj |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Throw | obl |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 Throw | advmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Throw | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Throw | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Throw | conj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Throw | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw in a quote | imperative | you not said here | stone | among teeth = tooth; quickly property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme among they=Destination | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | you not said here | dragon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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