Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 39
So saying, King Aegeus took the golden goblet from the table, and was about to offer it to Theseus.
Who acts: King · What happens: say, take, be, offer · To what, where: golden goblet, table, goblet, Theseus · 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 (King), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 took | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 5 | Aegeus | Aegeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | flat |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 goblet | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 goblet | amod |
| 9 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 table | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 table | det |
| 12 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 about | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 about | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 about | cop |
| 16 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 took | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 offer | mark |
| 18 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 about | xcomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 offer | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Theseus | case |
| 21 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 offer | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | King | the golden goblet | the table | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent goblet=Theme from table=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | King not said here | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | offer | to-infinitive | King not said here | goblet | Theseus | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to theseus=Goal |
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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