Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 15
"And how soon shall I be strong enough?"
Who acts: Aethra · What happens: be
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 (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 | _ | 8 strong | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 strong | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 soon | advmod |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 strong | advmod |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 strong | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 strong | nsubj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 strong | cop |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 strong | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 strong | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | shall | Aethra | enough, soon, strong property | 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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