Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 20

So, grasping the rough protuberances of the rock, he tugged and toiled amain, and got himself quite out of breath, without being able to stir the heavy stone.

Who acts: fellow · What happens: grasp, tug, toil, get, be, stir · To what, where: rough protuberances, fellow, breath, heavy stone

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 (fellow), 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	So	so	ADV	_	12 tugged	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	grasping	grasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 tugged	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 protuberances	det
5	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 protuberances	amod
6	protuberances	protuberance	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grasping	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 rock	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rock	det
9	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 protuberances	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grasping	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tugged	nsubj
12	tugged	tug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 toiled	cc
14	toiled	toil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tugged	conj
15	amain	amain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 toiled	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 got	cc
18	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tugged	parataxis
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 got	obj
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 got	advmod
21	out	out	ADP	_	23 breath	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 breath	case
23	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 got	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 able	punct
25	without	without	SCONJ	_	27 able	mark
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 able	cop
27	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 got	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 stir	mark
29	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 able	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stone	det
31	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stone	amod
32	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stir	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tugged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grasp	gerund	fellow not said here	the rough protuberances of the rock			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer protuberance=Stimulus
2	tug	past	fellow				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	toil	past	fellow not said here			amain property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	past		fellow	breath		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus
5	is	gerund				able property	tree rules
6	stir	to-infinitive		the heavy stone			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stone=Experiencer

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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