Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 8

As she said this, Medea smiled; but, for all her smiling face, she meant nothing less than to poison the poor innocent Theseus, before his father's eyes.

Who acts: woman, Medea · What happens: say, smile, mean, poison · To what, where: this, face, nothing, poor innocent 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 (woman, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 said	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 smiled	advcl
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
6	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 smiled	nsubj
7	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 meant	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 meant	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 but	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 smiling	mark
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 smiling	det:predet
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 smiling	nsubj
14	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 meant	advcl
15	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smiling	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 smiling	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 meant	nsubj
18	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 smiled	parataxis
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 meant	obj
20	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 nothing	amod
21	than	than	ADP	_	20 less	fixed
22	to	to	PART	_	23 poison	mark
23	poison	poison	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 nothing	acl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Theseus	det
25	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Theseus	amod
26	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Theseus	amod
27	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 poison	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 eyes	punct
29	before	before	ADP	_	33 eyes	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 father	nmod:poss
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eyes	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 father	case
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 meant	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 smiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	woman	this	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
2	smile	past	Medea		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	smile	gerund	Medea	face	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Topic
4	mean	past	Medea	nothing	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
5	poison	to-infinitive	Medea not said here	the poor innocent Theseus	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theseus=Patient

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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