Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 35
"And is he a live giant, or a brazen image?" asked Theseus.
Who acts: Talus, live giant · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: live giant, Theseus · 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 (Talus, live giant), 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 | _ | 7 giant | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 giant | cc |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 giant | cop |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 giant | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 giant | det |
| 6 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 giant | amod |
| 7 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 image | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 image | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 image | det |
| 11 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 image | amod |
| 12 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 giant | appos |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 image | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 image | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Talus | a live giant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a live giant | Theseus | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent theseus=Recipient |
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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