Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 48
"Ah, my dearest Theseus," replied his mother "not yet! not yet!"
Who acts: dearest Theseus · What happens: reply · To what, where: mother
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 (dearest 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 | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 9 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Theseus | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 Theseus | amod |
| 6 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Theseus | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Theseus | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 yet | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 yet | advmod |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 replied | advmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 yet | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 yet | advmod |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 replied | advmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | my dearest Theseus | Theseus's mother | yet; yet | 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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