Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 53
"Who are you, I say?" roared Antaeus again. "
Who acts: you · What happens: be, say, roar · To what, where: you, Antaeus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 you | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 you | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 you | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 roared | punct |
| 10 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | ccomp |
| 11 | Antaeus | Antaeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 roared | obj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 roared | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | roar | past | Antaeus | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location antaeus=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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