Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 89
"Are you awake, Prince Theseus?" she whispered.
Who acts: you, door · What happens: be, whisper · 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, door), 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 awake | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 awake | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 awake | nsubj |
| 4 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 whispered | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Theseus | punct |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Theseus | compound |
| 7 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 awake | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 awake | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 awake | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 whispered | nsubj |
| 11 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | awake property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: ask | past | door | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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