Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 23
The cunning Medea observed what was passing in the young man's mind.
Who acts: cunning, young man · What happens: observe, pass, mind · To what, where: mind
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 (cunning, young man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cunning | det |
| 2 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 observed | nsubj |
| 3 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cunning | appos |
| 4 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 passing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passing | aux |
| 7 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 observed | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 mind | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mind | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 man | case |
| 13 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passing | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | the cunning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pass | past · progressive | the young man's mind | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mind=Location | |||||
| 3 | mind | the young man | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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