Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 70

"Aha! do you think me so?" cried the king, laughing in his cruel way. "

Who acts: you, king · What happens: think, cry, laugh · To what, where: king · 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 (you, king), 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	_	6 think	punct
2	Aha	aha	INTJ	_	6 think	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Aha	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cried	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 think	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	6 think	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laughing	punct
15	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cried	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 way	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 way	nmod:poss
18	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laughing	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	you	the king = king		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	the king			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	laugh	gerund	the king not said here		in King's cruel way	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=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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