Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 55
"Thanks to thee, dear Ariadne," answered Theseus, "I return victorious."
Who acts: Theseus · What happens: answer, return · 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 (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 | _ | 2 Thanks | punct |
| 2 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 thee | case |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Thanks | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ariadne | punct |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Ariadne | amod |
| 7 | Ariadne | Ariadne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Thanks | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thanks | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 return | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 return | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 return | nsubj |
| 15 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | conj |
| 16 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 return | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Theseus | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | return in a quote | present | Theseus | victorious property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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