Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 36
"That, truly," replied the master, "is the point which has always perplexed me.
Who acts: That · What happens: reply, be, perplex · To what, where: master, point · 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 (That), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 truly | punct |
| 4 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 7 replied | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 truly | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 truly | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 point | csubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 master | det |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 point | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 point | det |
| 14 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 perplexed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 perplexed | aux |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 perplexed | advmod |
| 18 | perplexed | perplex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 point | acl:relcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 perplexed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 point | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | That | the master | truly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the point | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | perplex in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the point | always property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result |
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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