Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 35
"Mother, I do believe it has started!" cried he, after one of his attempts. "
Who acts: I, Theseus · What happens: believe, start, cry, attempt · To what, where: difficult · 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 (I, Theseus), 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 | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 2 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | aux |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Mother | parataxis |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 started | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 started | aux |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 believe | ccomp |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 cried | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 attempts | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 attempts | nmod:poss |
| 19 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | present · do-support | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | start in a quote | present · perfect · passive | difficult | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | after one of Theseus's attempts | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | attempt | Theseus | nom attempt «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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