Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 1

So, when the king asked what he should do with Theseus, this naughty woman had an answer ready at her tongue's end.

Who acts: king, naughty woman · What happens: ask, do, have · To what, where: answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, naughty woman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 asked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 asked	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	nsubj
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 asked	ccomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 Theseus	case
12	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 woman	det
15	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	conj
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 answer	det
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
20	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 had	xcomp
21	at	at	ADP	_	25 end	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 tongue	nmod:poss
23	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 end	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 tongue	case
25	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ready	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the king			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	should	king		with Theseus	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	have	past	this naughty woman	a answer	ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient

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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