Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 50

Then Theseus bent himself in good earnest to the task, and strained every sinew, with manly strength and resolution.

Who acts: Theseus · What happens: bend, strain · To what, where: Theseus, good earnest, sinew

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 (Theseus), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bent	advmod
2	Theseus	theseus	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 bent	nsubj
3	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 bent	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 earnest	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 earnest	amod
7	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 bent	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 task	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 task	det
10	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 earnest	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 strained	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 strained	cc
13	strained	strain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bent	conj
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 sinew	det
15	sinew	sinew	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 strained	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 strength	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 strength	case
18	manly	manly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 strength	amod
19	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 strained	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 resolution	cc
21	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 strength	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	past	Theseus	Theseus		good earnest	then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in earn=Location
2	strain	participle	Theseus not said here	every sinew					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sinew=Source

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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