Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 100
"O my dear son," cried King Aegeus, "why should you expose yourself to this horrible fate?
Who acts: dear son, you · What happens: cry, expose · To what, where: King Aegeus, yourself, horrible fate · 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 (dear son, you), 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 | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 son | discourse |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 son | amod |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Aegeus | compound |
| 10 | Aegeus | Aegeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 expose | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 expose | punct |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 expose | advmod |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 expose | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 expose | nsubj |
| 16 | expose | expose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | conj |
| 17 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 expose | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 fate | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 fate | det |
| 20 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fate | amod |
| 21 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 expose | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | my dear son | King Aegeus | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aegeus=Topic | ||||
| 2 | expose in a quote | should | you | yourself | this horrible fate | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme to fate=Recipient |
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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