Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens, sentence 861
When Althea beheld the dead bodies of the slain heroes, her grief and anger knew no bounds.
Who acts: Althea, grief · What happens: behold, slay, know · To what, where: dead bodies, bounds
This is a sentence of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Althea, grief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 beheld | advmod |
| 2 | Althea | Althea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 beheld | nsubj |
| 3 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 knew | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bodies | det |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bodies | amod |
| 6 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 beheld | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 heroes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heroes | det |
| 9 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 heroes | amod |
| 10 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bodies | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 beheld | punct |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 grief | nmod:poss |
| 13 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 anger | cc |
| 15 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grief | conj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 bounds | det |
| 18 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 knew | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | Althea | the dead bodies of the slain heroes | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | slay | participle | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | know | past | Althea's grief and anger | no bounds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus |
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: «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens», Project Gutenberg book 22381 (public domain in the USA). Annotation: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (mova-tales-silver-en.conllu), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence gutenberg:pg22381:861.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.3.
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