Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 34

But, difficult as the matter looked, Theseus was now growing up to be such a vigorous youth, that, in his own opinion, the time would quickly come when he might hope to get the upper hand of this ponderous lump of stone.

Who acts: difficult, Theseus, time · What happens: look, grow up, be, come, hope, get · To what, where: vigorous youth, upper hand

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 (difficult, Theseus, time), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 looked	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 difficult	punct
3	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 looked	nsubj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 matter	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 matter	det
6	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 difficult	obl
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 growing	punct
9	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 growing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 growing	aux
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 growing	advmod
12	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 looked	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 growing	compound:prt
14	to	to	PART	_	19 youth	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 youth	cop
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 youth	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 youth	det
18	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 youth	amod
19	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 growing	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 opinion	punct
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 opinion	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 opinion	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 opinion	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 opinion	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 opinion	amod
26	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 youth	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
31	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	32 come	advmod
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 opinion	parataxis
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 hope	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 hope	nsubj
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 hope	aux
36	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 come	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 get	mark
38	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 hope	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 hand	det
40	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 hand	amod
41	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 get	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 lump	case
43	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 lump	det
44	ponderous	ponderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 lump	amod
45	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hand	nmod
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 stone	case
47	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lump	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	difficult				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	grow up	past · progressive	Theseus		now		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here	such vigorous youth and Theseus's own opinion			tree rules
4	come	would	the time			quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hope	might	Theseus				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here	the upper hand of this ponderous lump of stone			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus
7	opine		Theseus				nom opinion «cognition 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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