Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 51
But, as Jason was hastening down the palace steps, the Princess Medea called after him, and beckoned him to return.
Who acts: Jason, Princess Medea · What happens: hasten, call, beckon, return · 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 (Jason, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 hastening | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hastening | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 hastening | mark |
| 4 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hastening | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hastening | aux |
| 6 | hastening | hasten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 called | advcl |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 steps | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 steps | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 steps | compound |
| 10 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hastening | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hastening | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Medea | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Medea | compound |
| 14 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 called | nsubj |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 called | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beckoned | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 beckoned | cc |
| 20 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 called | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 beckoned | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 return | mark |
| 23 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 beckoned | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past · progressive | Jason | down the palace steps | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down step=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | call | past | the Princess Medea | after Jason | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | beckon | past | the Princess Medea not said here | Jason | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | return | to-infinitive | the Princess Medea not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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