Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 55
"It was my father's sword," replied Theseus, with a tremulous voice. "
Who acts: sword · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: sword · 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 (sword), 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 | _ | 7 sword | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sword | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sword | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sword | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 father | case |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sword | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sword | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 voice | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 15 | tremulous | tremulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voice | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 voice | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 voice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | sword | my father's sword | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | my father's sword | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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