Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 54
"Thou hast slain the monster," cried Ariadne, clasping her hands.
Who acts: Thou · What happens: have, cry, clasp · To what, where: slain, hands · 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 (Thou), 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 hast | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 hast | nsubj |
| 3 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hast | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 monster | det |
| 6 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hast | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hast | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hast | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Ariadne | Ariadne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 clasping | punct |
| 12 | clasping | clasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 clasping | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Thou | slain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | clasp | gerund | Ariadne's hands | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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