Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 52
He wrestled with the big and sluggish stone, as if it had been a living enemy.
Who acts: Theseus, stone · What happens: wrestle, be · To what, where: living enemy
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, stone), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wrestled | nsubj |
| 2 | wrestled | wrestle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 stone | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stone | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sluggish | cc |
| 7 | sluggish | sluggish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 big | conj |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrestled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 enemy | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 enemy | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 enemy | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 enemy | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 enemy | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 enemy | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 enemy | det |
| 16 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 enemy | amod |
| 17 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrestled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrestled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrestle | past | Theseus | with the big stone | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with stone=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | stone | a living enemy | tree rules |
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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