Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 25
"Does your majesty see his confusion?" she whispered in the king's ear. "
Who acts: majesty, cunning, Theseus · What happens: see, whisper, confuse · To what, where: confusion, ear · 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 (majesty, cunning, Theseus), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 confusion | nmod:poss |
| 7 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 whispered | nsubj |
| 11 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 ear | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ear | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 king | case |
| 16 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whispered | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present · do-support | your majesty | Theseus's confusion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: ask | past | cunning | the king's ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | ||||
| 3 | confuse in a quote | Theseus | nom confusion «state 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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