Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 57

My dear mother (her name is Aethra) told me his story while I was yet a little child.

Who acts: name, dear mother, I, mother · What happens: be, tell, name · To what, where: Aethra, story, me, little child · 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 (name, dear mother, I, mother), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
2	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 Aethra	punct
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 name	nmod:poss
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Aethra	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Aethra	cop
8	Aethra	Aethra	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mother	appos
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 Aethra	punct
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 story	nmod:poss
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obj
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 child	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 child	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 child	cop
17	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	20 child	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 child	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 child	amod
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present	mother's name	Aethra		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	My dear mother	Theseus's story	me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic
3	is a	past	I	a little child		tree rules
4	name		mother			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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