Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 33

Theseus asked of the master of the vessel, who was now at leisure to answer him.

Who acts: Theseus, master · What happens: ask, be, answer · To what, where: leisure, Theseus

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 (Theseus, 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	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 master	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 master	det
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 vessel	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vessel	det
8	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 master	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 leisure	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 leisure	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 leisure	cop
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 leisure	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 leisure	case
14	leisure	leisure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 master	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 answer	mark
16	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 leisure	acl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 answer	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Theseus				of the master of the vessel and leisure	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of master=Recipient
2	is	past	the master of the vessel and leisure		leisure	now		tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here	Theseus				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=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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