Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 12
Observing this, Medea looked round at the nephews, and smiled again.
Who acts: Medea · What happens: observe, look round, smile · To what, where: this
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 (Medea), 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 | Observing | observe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 looked | advcl |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Observing | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Observing | punct |
| 4 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 nephews | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 nephews | det |
| 9 | nephews | nephew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 smiled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 smiled | cc |
| 12 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 smiled | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | gerund | Medea not said here | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look round | past | Medea | at the nephews; round property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at nephew=Theme | ||||
| 3 | smile | past | Medea not said here | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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