Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 73
Near the king's throne (though I had no time to tell you so before) stood his daughter Ariadne.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, tell, stand · To what, where: throne, you, daughter · 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 (I), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 5 throne | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 throne | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | obl |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 7 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 9 had | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 throne | acl:relcl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 tell | mark |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 time | acl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | iobj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 before | advmod |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 tell | advmod |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | obj |
| 21 | Ariadne | Ariadne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 daughter | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | the king's throne not said here | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Patient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | before property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | stand | past | King's daughter | the king's throne | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme near throne=Destination |
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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