Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 92
"Then follow me," said Ariadne, "and tread softly."
Who acts: you, Ariadne · What happens: follow, say, tread · To what, where: Ariadne · 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, Ariadne), 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 | _ | 3 follow | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 follow | advmod |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 follow | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | conj |
| 8 | Ariadne | Ariadne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tread | cc |
| 12 | tread | tread | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | conj |
| 13 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 12 tread | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Ariadne | then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ariadne | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tread in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | softly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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