Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 58
"Yes, Jason," said the princess, "and I can tell you more.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: say, tell · To what, where: princess, more, you · 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), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Jason | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Jason | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tell | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 tell | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jason | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | Jason | more | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient more=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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