Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 12
"That may happen by and by," said Aethra. "
Who acts: That, Aethra · What happens: happen, say · 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 (That, Aethra), 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 | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 happen | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 by | cc |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 by | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Aethra | Aethra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | may | That | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Aethra | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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