Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 2
His grandfather, King Pittheus, was the sovereign of that country, and was reckoned a very wise man; so that Theseus, being brought up in the royal palace, and being naturally a bright lad, could hardly fail of profiting by the old king's instructions.
Who acts: grandfather, bright lad, old king · What happens: be, reckon, bring up, fail, profit, instruct · To what, where: sovereign, wise man, royal palace, bright lad
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 (grandfather, bright lad, old king), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sovereign | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 King | punct |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grandfather | appos |
| 5 | Pittheus | Pittheus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 grandfather | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sovereign | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sovereign | det |
| 9 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sovereign | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reckoned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reckoned | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reckoned | aux:pass |
| 16 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sovereign | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 wise | advmod |
| 19 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reckoned | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 Theseus | punct |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 24 Theseus | case |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 so | fixed |
| 24 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 reckoned | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 brought | punct |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 brought | aux:pass |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 reckoned | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 brought | compound:prt |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 palace | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 palace | det |
| 31 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 palace | amod |
| 32 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 brought | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 lad | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 lad | cc |
| 35 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 lad | cop |
| 36 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 39 lad | advmod |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 lad | det |
| 38 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 lad | amod |
| 39 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sovereign | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 fail | punct |
| 41 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 fail | aux |
| 42 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 43 fail | advmod |
| 43 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 lad | acl:relcl |
| 44 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 45 profiting | mark |
| 45 | profiting | profit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 fail | advcl |
| 46 | by | by | ADP | _ | 51 instructions | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 king | det |
| 48 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 king | amod |
| 49 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 instructions | nmod:poss |
| 50 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 49 king | case |
| 51 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 profiting | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sovereign | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | boy's grandfather | the sovereign and a bright lad | of that country | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reckon | past · passive | a wise man | so Theseus | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: man=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | bring up | gerund · passive | the royal palace | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient» | |||||
| 4 | is a | gerund | boy's grandfather not said here | a bright lad | naturally property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | fail | could | a bright lad not said here | hardly property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | profit | gerund | a bright lad not said here | by the old king's instructions | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Beneficiary by instruction=Causer | ||||
| 7 | instruct | the old king | nom instruction «communication transitive»: 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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