Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 84
"Alas! my son," quoth King Aegeus, heaving a long sigh, "here is a very lamentable matter in hand!
Who acts: lamentable matter · What happens: heave, be · To what, where: long sigh
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 (lamentable matter), 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 | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 son | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Aegeus | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Aegeus | punct |
| 8 | quoth | quoth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Aegeus | amod |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Aegeus | compound |
| 10 | Aegeus | Aegeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heaving | punct |
| 12 | heaving | heave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 son | appos |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sigh | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sigh | amod |
| 15 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heaving | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 here | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 here | punct |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 heaving | advmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 here | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 matter | det |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 lamentable | advmod |
| 22 | lamentable | lamentable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 matter | amod |
| 23 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 here | nsubj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 matter | nmod |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heave | gerund | a long sigh | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | a lamentable matter in hand | here property | tree rules |
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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