Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 22
"Did you see that flash of light?" he inquired of the master of the vessel.
Who acts: you, Theseus, light · What happens: see, inquire, flash · To what, where: flash · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Theseus, light), 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 | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 flash | det |
| 6 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 light | case |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flash | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 inquired | nsubj |
| 12 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 master | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 master | det |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inquired | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 vessel | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 vessel | det |
| 18 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 master | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past · do-support | you | that flash of light | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Theseus | of the master of the vessel | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of master=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | flash in a quote | light | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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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