Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 48
"On what errand?" thundered the Man of Brass.
Who acts: errand · What happens: thunder · To what, where: Man
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 (errand), 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 errand | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 errand | case |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 errand | nsubj |
| 4 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thundered | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 errand | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 errand | punct |
| 7 | thundered | thunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Man | det |
| 9 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thundered | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Brass | case |
| 11 | Brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Man | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thundered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thunder | past | errand | the Man of Brass | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
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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