Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 1
In the old city of Troezene, at the foot of a lofty mountain, there lived, a very long time ago, a little boy named Theseus.
What happens: live, name · To what, where: little boy, old city
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 city | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 city | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 city | amod |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Troezene | case |
| 6 | Troezene | Troezene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 city | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 foot | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 foot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 foot | det |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 city | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mountain | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mountain | det |
| 13 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mountain | amod |
| 14 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 foot | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 city | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 lived | expl |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ago | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 long | advmod |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 17 lived | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 boy | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 boy | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 boy | amod |
| 27 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obl |
| 28 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 boy | acl |
| 29 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 named | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a little boy | the old city of Troezene and the foot of a lofty mountain; there | ago property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location | |||
| 2 | name | participle | a little boy not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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