Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 105
In reply to this question, the wicked Medea put in her word.
Who acts: wicked Medea, Medea · What happens: put, word · To what, where: reply
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 (wicked Medea, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 reply | case |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 question | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 question | det |
| 5 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reply | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 reply | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Medea | det |
| 8 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Medea | amod |
| 9 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 word | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 word | nmod:poss |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the wicked Medea | reply to this question | in Medea's word | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in reply=Destination | |||
| 2 | word | Medea | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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