Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 40

But Aethra sighed, and looked disquieted; for, no doubt, she began to be conscious that her son was no longer a child, and that, in a little while hence, she must send him forth among the perils and troubles of the world.

Who acts: Aethra, son · What happens: sigh, disquiet, begin, be, send, trouble · To what, where: child, son, world

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 (Aethra, son), 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	_	3 sighed	cc
2	Aethra	Aethra	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sighed	nsubj
3	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 disquieted	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 disquieted	cc
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 disquieted	aux:pass
7	disquieted	disquiet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sighed	ccomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 doubt	case
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 doubt	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 doubt	det
12	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 began	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 doubt	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sighed	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 conscious	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 conscious	cop
18	conscious	conscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 began	xcomp
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 child	mark
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 son	nmod:poss
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 child	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 child	cop
23	no	no	ADV	_	24 longer	advmod
24	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 child	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 child	det
26	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 conscious	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 little	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 little	cc
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 little	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 little	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 little	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 little	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sighed	conj
34	while	while	SCONJ	_	35 hence	mark
35	hence	hence	ADV	_	33 little	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 send	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 send	nsubj
38	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 send	aux
39	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sighed	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 send	obj
41	forth	forth	ADV	_	39 send	advmod
42	among	among	ADP	_	44 perils	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 perils	det
44	perils	peril	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 send	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 troubles	cc
46	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 perils	conj
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 world	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 world	det
49	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 troubles	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sigh	past	Aethra			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	disquiet	past · passive	Aethra not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	begin	past	Aethra		for no doubt	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is	to-infinitive	Aethra not said here		conscious property	tree rules
5	is a	past	Aethra's son	a child	long property	tree rules
6	send	must	Aethra	son	among the perils and troubles of the world; forth property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	trouble			the world		nom trouble «cognition 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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