Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 102
"Aha!" cried the old king, on hearing this. "
Who acts: old king · What happens: cry, hear · To what, where: this
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 (old king), 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 | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 2 | Aha | aha | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Aha | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 king | amod |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hearing | punct |
| 10 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 11 hearing | mark |
| 11 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | advcl |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 hearing | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the old king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the old king not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/102/