Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 68

Here is what Ariadne answered, when the brave prince of Athens besought her to accompany him:

Who acts: Ariadne, brave prince · What happens: be, answer, beseech, accompany · To what, where: Ariadne, prince

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 (Ariadne, brave prince), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Here	nsubj
4	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 besought	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 besought	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
9	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 prince	amod
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 besought	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Athens	case
12	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 prince	nmod
13	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 besought	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 accompany	mark
16	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 besought	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 accompany	obj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			here property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	Ariadne			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	beseech	past	the brave prince of Athens	Ariadne		tree rules
4	accompany	to-infinitive	the brave prince of Athens not said here	prince		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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