Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 39

Nor would she be convinced, although Theseus showed her the place where he fancied that the stem of a flower had been partly uprooted by the movement of the rock.

Who acts: mother, Theseus, movement · What happens: be, show, fancy, uproot, stem, move · To what, where: place, mother, stem, flower, rock

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 (mother, Theseus, movement), 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	Nor	nor	ADV	_	5 convinced	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 convinced	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 convinced	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 convinced	cop
5	convinced	convinced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 showed	punct
7	although	although	SCONJ	_	9 showed	mark
8	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 showed	nsubj
9	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 convinced	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 showed	iobj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 showed	obj
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 fancied	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fancied	nsubj
15	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 place	acl:relcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 uprooted	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stem	det
18	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 uprooted	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 flower	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 flower	det
21	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stem	nmod
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 uprooted	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 uprooted	aux:pass
24	partly	partly	ADV	_	25 uprooted	advmod
25	uprooted	uproot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 fancied	ccomp
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 movement	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 movement	det
28	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 uprooted	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 rock	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rock	det
31	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 movement	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 convinced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	would	mother			convinced, nor property	tree rules
2	show	past	Theseus	the place	mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient place=Topic
3	fancy	past	Theseus				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	uproot	past · perfect · passive	the movement of the rock	the stem of a flower		partly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
5	stem			a flower			nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	move			the rock			nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient

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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