Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 54
"That sword!" he exclaimed: "how came you by it?"
Who acts: Theseus · What happens: exclaim, come · To what, where: sword, you · 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 (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 | _ | 3 sword | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sword | det |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exclaimed | obl |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 sword | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sword | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 came | advmod |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 exclaimed | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 came | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Theseus | that sword | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | Theseus not said here | you | by sword | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=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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