Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 106
As I have already told you, she was a famous enchantress.
Who acts: Medea · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: I, you, famous enchantress · 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 (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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 told | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | aux |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 told | advmod |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 enchantress | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 enchantress | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 enchantress | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 enchantress | det |
| 11 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 enchantress | amod |
| 12 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 enchantress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Medea | a famous enchantress | tree rules |
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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