Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 11

"Well, but, dear mother," asked the boy, "why cannot I go to this famous city of Athens, and tell King Aegeus that I am his son?"

Who acts: dear mother · What happens: ask, not go, tell, be · To what, where: boy, famous city, King, son · 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 (dear mother), 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 mother	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 mother	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 mother	cc
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mother	amod
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 go	advmod
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 go	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 city	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 city	det
22	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 city	amod
23	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Athens	case
25	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 city	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tell	cc
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	ccomp
29	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 tell	iobj
30	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 King	flat
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 son	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 son	nsubj
33	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 son	cop
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 son	nmod:poss
35	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tell	ccomp
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	dear mother		the boy		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not go in a quote	can	dear mother = mother			this famous city of Athens	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			King		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
4	is a in a quote	present	dear mother = mother	boy's son			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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