Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 95
"Theseus," said the maiden, "you can now get on board your vessel, and sail away for Athens."
Who acts: Theseus, you · What happens: say, get, sail away · To what, where: maiden, vessel · 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 (Theseus, you), 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 | _ | 2 Theseus | punct |
| 2 | Theseus | theseus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Theseus | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Theseus | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maiden | det |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 get | advmod |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 vessel | case |
| 15 | board | board | ADP | _ | 17 vessel | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 17 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sail | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sail | cc |
| 20 | sail | sail | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | parataxis |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 sail | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 Athens | case |
| 23 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sail | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Theseus | the maiden | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | can | you | your vessel | now | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on vessel=Source | |||
| 3 | sail away in a quote | infinitive | for Athens; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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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