Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 109

This chariot, in fact, was the vehicle that first brought her to Athens, where she had done nothing but mischief ever since her arrival.

Who acts: chariot, Medea · What happens: be, bring, do, arrive · To what, where: vehicle, Athens, nothing

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: who acts (chariot, Medea), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 chariot	det
2	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vehicle	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fact	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 fact	case
5	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chariot	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 chariot	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 vehicle	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vehicle	det
9	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 brought	obj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 brought	advmod
12	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 vehicle	acl:relcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Athens	case
15	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 done	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 done	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 Athens	acl:relcl
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 done	obj
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 mischief	cc
23	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nothing	conj
24	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 done	advmod
25	since	since	ADP	_	27 arrival	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 arrival	nmod:poss
27	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 done	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 vehicle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this chariot and fact	the vehicle				tree rules
2	bring	past		the vehicle	Athens		first property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme she=Destination
3	do	past · perfect	Medea	nothing		since Medea's arrival; ever		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
4	arrive		Medea					nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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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