Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 13
The people had now withdrawn from around him, so that the youth stood in an open space, near the smoking altar, front to front with the angry King Pelias.
Who acts: youth · What happens: withdraw, stand · To what, where: people, open space
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (youth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 withdrawn | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 withdrawn | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 withdrawn | advmod |
| 5 | withdrawn | withdraw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 withdrawn | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 stood | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 youth | det |
| 13 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 withdrawn | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 space | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 space | det |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 space | amod |
| 18 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 altar | punct |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 23 altar | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 altar | det |
| 22 | smoking | smoking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 altar | compound |
| 23 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 front | punct |
| 25 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 altar | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 front | case |
| 27 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 front | nmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 Pelias | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Pelias | det |
| 30 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Pelias | amod |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Pelias | compound |
| 32 | Pelias | Pelias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 front | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 withdrawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withdraw | past · perfect · passive | the people | now | from Jason | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the youth | a open space | near the smoking altar front to front with the angry King Pelias | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in space=Location |
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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