Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 32
The enchantress again whispered in the king's ear, and compelled him, by her witchcraft, to see everything under a false aspect.
Who acts: enchantress · What happens: whisper, compel, see · To what, where: ear, king, everything, false aspect
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 (enchantress), 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 enchantress | det |
| 2 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whispered | nsubj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 whispered | advmod |
| 4 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 ear | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ear | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whispered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 compelled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 compelled | cc |
| 12 | compelled | compel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 whispered | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 compelled | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 witchcraft | punct |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 witchcraft | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 witchcraft | nmod:poss |
| 17 | witchcraft | witchcraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 compelled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 compelled | conj |
| 21 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 aspect | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 aspect | det |
| 24 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 aspect | amod |
| 25 | aspect | aspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | the enchantress | the king's ear | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | |||
| 2 | compel | past | king | by enchantress's witchcraft | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | everything | a false aspect | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
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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