Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 28
"It made me very sad," answered Jason, gravely. "
Who acts: conceit, Jason · What happens: make, answer · To what, where: Jason · 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 (conceit, Jason), 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 | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 sad | advmod |
| 6 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 10 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gravely | punct |
| 12 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 9 answered | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past | conceit | Jason | sad property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Jason | gravely property | 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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