Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 17
"You are but a tiny boy as yet," replied his mother. "
Who acts: You, tiny boy · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: tiny boy, mother · 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 (You, tiny boy), 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 boy | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 boy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 boy | cop |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 boy | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boy | amod |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 yet | case |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 boy | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 boy | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | a tiny boy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | a tiny boy | boy's mother | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=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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