Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 54

Aethra stood gazing at him, and clasped her hands, partly with a mother's pride, and partly with a mother's sorrow.

Who acts: Aethra, mother · What happens: stand, gaze, clasp, pride, sorrow · To what, where: hands

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, mother), 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	Aethra	Aethra	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gazing	gaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stood	xcomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gazing	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 clasped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 clasped	cc
8	clasped	clasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clasped	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pride	punct
12	partly	partly	ADV	_	17 pride	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	17 pride	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mother	det
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pride	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 mother	case
17	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clasped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sorrow	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sorrow	cc
20	partly	partly	ADV	_	25 sorrow	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	25 sorrow	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mother	det
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sorrow	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 mother	case
25	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Aethra		with a mother's sorrow	vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	gaze	gerund	Aethra not said here		at Theseus	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
3	clasp	past	Aethra not said here	Aethra's hands	with a mother's pride	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with pride=Instrument
4	pride		a mother			nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
5	sorrow		a mother			nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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