Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 66
"I will set out for Athens this very day!" cried Theseus.
Who acts: Theseus · What happens: set out, cry · 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 (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 | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Athens | case |
| 7 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 day | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 day | advmod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out in a quote | future | Theseus | day | for Athens | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Theseus | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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