Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 63
But when the wicked Medea saw this new turn of affairs, she hurried out of the room, and going to her private chamber, lost no time to setting her enchantments to work.
Who acts: wicked Medea, Medea · What happens: see, hurry, go, lose, set, work · To what, where: new turn, room, private chamber, enchantments
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 (wicked Medea, Medea), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 hurried | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Medea | det |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Medea | amod |
| 5 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hurried | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 turn | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 turn | amod |
| 9 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 affairs | case |
| 11 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 turn | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hurried | nsubj |
| 14 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hurried | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lost | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lost | cc |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 lost | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 chamber | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 24 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 chamber | amod |
| 25 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 going | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
| 27 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hurried | conj |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 time | det |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lost | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 setting | mark |
| 31 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 time | acl |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 enchantments | nmod:poss |
| 33 | enchantments | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 setting | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 work | mark |
| 35 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 setting | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the wicked Medea | this new turn of affairs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turn=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hurry | past | Medea | the room | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out room=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | Medea's private chamber | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | lose | past | Medea not said here | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | set | gerund | Medea not said here | Medea's enchantments | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient enchantment=Result | ||||
| 6 | work | to-infinitive | Medea not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | enchant | Medea | nom enchantment «feeling 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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