Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 54

"What says King Aetes, my royal and upright father?" inquired Medea, slightly smiling. "

Who acts: Medea · What happens: say, inquire, smile · 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 (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	_	3 says	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 inquired	nsubj
5	Aetes	Aetes	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 King	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
8	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 father	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 upright	cc
10	upright	upright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 royal	conj
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 King	appos
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
14	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
15	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 inquired	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 smiling	punct
17	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	18 smiling	advmod
18	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 inquired	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	inquire speech: other	past	Medea		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	smile	gerund	Medea not said here	slightly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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