Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 2
"Leave that to me, please your majesty," she replied. "
Who acts: you, woman · What happens: leave, reply · To what, where: that, woman · 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 (you, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 2 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Leave | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Leave | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 7 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 9 majesty | discourse |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Leave | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Leave | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | imperative | you not said here | that | woman | your majesty obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | woman | vn respond-113 «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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