Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 25
As the breeze came fresher just then, the master was busy with trimming his sails, and had no more time to answer questions.
Who acts: master · What happens: come, be, trim, have, answer · To what, where: sails, questions
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 (master), 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 | ADP | _ | 3 breeze | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 breeze | det |
| 3 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fresher | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 came | xcomp |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 then | advmod |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 busy | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 master | det |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 busy | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 busy | cop |
| 12 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 trimming | mark |
| 14 | trimming | trim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 busy | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sails | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 trimming | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 time | det |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 answer | mark |
| 24 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 time | acl |
| 25 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 answer | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | then | as the breeze; fresh property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the master | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | trim | gerund | the master not said here | master's sails | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | past | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | questions | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |
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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