Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 87
"Step forward," cried he. "
Who acts: you · What happens: step forward, cry · To what, where: Hercules · 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 | _ | 2 Step | punct |
| 2 | Step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 Step | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Step | conj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Step | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Step | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step forward in a quote | imperative | you not said here | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | you not said here | Hercules | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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