Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 101
"And he is now waiting for admission to your majesty's presence," added they.
Who acts: Theseus · What happens: wait, add · To what, where: nephews · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theseus), 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 | _ | 6 waiting | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 waiting | cc |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 waiting | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 waiting | aux |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 waiting | advmod |
| 6 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 admission | case |
| 8 | admission | admission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waiting | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 presence | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 presence | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 majesty | case |
| 13 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waiting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 added | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 added | punct |
| 16 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 waiting | conj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 added | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | present · progressive | Theseus | now | for admission; to your majesty's presence | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | Theseus not said here | nephews = nephew | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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