Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 63
"That was your father's sword," said Aethra, "and those were his sandals.
Who acts: That, father sword · What happens: be, say · To what, where: sandals · 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 (That, father sword), 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 sword | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 father | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 father | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sword | compound |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 father | case |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sword | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sword | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Aethra | Aethra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Aethra | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Aethra | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sandals | cc |
| 15 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 sandals | det |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sandals | cop |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sandals | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Aethra | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | That | 's your father | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | father sword | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | father sword not said here | sword's sandals | 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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