Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 69
"No, Theseus," the maiden said, pressing his hand, and then drawing back a step or two, "I cannot go with you.
Who acts: Theseus · What happens: say, press, draw back, not go · To what, where: hand, step · 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 | _ | 4 Theseus | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 Theseus | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Theseus | punct |
| 4 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Theseus | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 maiden | det |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pressing | punct |
| 11 | pressing | press | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pressing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drawing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drawing | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 drawing | advmod |
| 17 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | parataxis |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 drawing | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 step | det |
| 20 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drawing | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 two | cc |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 step | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 go | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 go | advmod |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 drawing | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 go | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Theseus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | press | gerund | Theseus not said here | Theseus's hand | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw back | gerund | a step | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not go in a quote | can | Theseus | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary |
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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