Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 1
"But how shall I ever find him," asked Theseus, "if the labyrinth so bewilders me as you say it will?"
Who acts: I, labyrinth, Theseus · What happens: find, ask, bewilder, say · To what, where: him, Theseus, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, labyrinth, Theseus), 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 | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 find | advmod |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 find | advmod |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 find | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bewilders | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 bewilders | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 bewilders | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 labyrinth | det |
| 17 | labyrinth | labyrinth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bewilders | nsubj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 bewilders | advmod |
| 19 | bewilders | bewilder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 bewilders | obj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 say | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 say | nsubj |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 bewilders | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 will | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 say | ccomp |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 bewilders | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 bewilders | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | shall | I | him = he | ever | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Theseus | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent theseus=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bewilder in a quote | present | the labyrinth | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Theseus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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