Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 28
Quick! offer him the wine!"
Who acts: you · What happens: offer · To what, where: wine, wretch
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), 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 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 offer | advcl |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quick | punct |
| 3 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 offer | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wine | det |
| 6 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offer | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 offer | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | imperative | you not said here | the wine | wretch | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal wine=Theme |
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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