Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 6

Here she often talked with her son about his father, and said that he was called Aegeus, and that he was a great king, and ruled over Attica, and dwelt at Athens, which was as famous a city as any in the world.

Who acts: Aethra, Theseus, Athens · What happens: talk, say, call, be, rule, dwell · To what, where: Theseus, great king, Attica, Athens · 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 (Aethra, Theseus, Athens), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 talked	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talked	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 talked	advmod
4	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 son	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talked	obl
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 father	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talked	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 called	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 called	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 called	aux:pass
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	ccomp
18	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 called	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 king	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 king	cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 king	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 king	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 king	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 king	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 king	amod
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talked	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ruled	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ruled	cc
29	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talked	conj
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 Attica	case
31	Attica	Attica	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 ruled	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dwelt	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 dwelt	cc
34	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talked	conj
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 Athens	case
36	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 dwelt	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 city	punct
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 city	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 city	cop
40	as	as	ADP	_	43 city	case
41	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 city	amod
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 city	det
43	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Athens	appos
44	as	as	ADP	_	45 any	case
45	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	43 city	nmod
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 world	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 world	det
48	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 any	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	past	Aethra		here	with Aethra's son about Theseus's father; often property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with son=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Aethra not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	call	past · passive		Theseus			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	is a	past	Theseus	a great king			tree rules
5	rule	past	Aethra not said here		Attica		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	dwell	past	Aethra not said here		Athens		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at athens=Location
7	is	past	Athens			as a famous city; as any	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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