Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 25
"Let them sleep in the bed of honor," said the Princess Medea, with a sly smile at Jason. "
Who acts: ends, Princess Medea · What happens: let, sleep, say · To what, where: ends, bed · 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 (ends, Princess 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bed | det |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleep | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 honor | case |
| 9 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bed | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Medea | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Medea | compound |
| 15 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 smile | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 smile | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 smile | det |
| 19 | sly | sly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 smile | amod |
| 20 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 Jason | case |
| 22 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 smile | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 smile | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 smile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | ends = end | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sleep in a quote | infinitive | ends = end not said here | the bed of honor | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess Medea | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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