Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 8
"Ah, my dear son," answered Aethra, with a sigh, "a monarch has his people to take care of.
Who acts: dear son, monarch, people · What happens: answer, have, take · To what, where: Aethra, people, care · 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 (dear son, monarch, people), 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 | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 son | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Aethra | Aethra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sigh | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 sigh | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sigh | det |
| 14 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Aethra | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 has | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 has | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 monarch | det |
| 18 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 has | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 people | nmod:poss |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 has | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 take | mark |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 has | xcomp |
| 24 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 take | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | my dear son | Aethra | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent aethra=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | a monarch | son's people | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | son's people not said here | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
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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