Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 9

"My beloved son," said he, grasping the Prince's hand, "you observe that the sails of this vessel are black; as indeed they ought to be, since it goes upon a voyage of sorrow and despair.

Who acts: beloved son, son, you, sails, hand · What happens: say, grasp, observe, be, voyage · To what, where: hand, sorrow · 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 (beloved son, son, you, sails), 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 son	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 son	nmod:poss
3	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 son	amod
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 son	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 son	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 grasping	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grasping	punct
10	grasping	grasp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 said	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 hand	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Prince	case
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grasping	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 observe	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 observe	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 observe	nsubj
18	observe	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 grasping	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 black	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sails	det
21	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 black	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 vessel	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 vessel	det
24	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sails	nmod
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 black	cop
26	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 observe	ccomp
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 ought	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 ought	mark
29	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	31 ought	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ought	nsubj
31	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	37 goes	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 goes	cop
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 goes	punct
35	since	since	SCONJ	_	37 goes	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 goes	nsubj
37	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 ought	advcl
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 voyage	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 voyage	det
40	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 goes	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 sorrow	case
42	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 voyage	nmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 despair	cc
44	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sorrow	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My beloved son			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grasp	gerund	son	the Prince's hand		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus
3	observe in a quote	present	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	the sails of this vessel		black property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	to-infinitive	hand		upon a voyage of sorrow and despair; go property	tree rules
6	voyage in a quote			sorrow and despair		nom voyage «act transitive»: of=patient

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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