Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 58

While taking breath, he looked joyfully at his mother, and she smiled upon him through her tears.

Who acts: Theseus, mother · What happens: take, look, smile · To what, where: breath, tears

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, 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	2 taking	mark
2	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 looked	advcl
3	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taking	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 taking	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	6 looked	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 mother	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 smiled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 smiled	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 smiled	nsubj
14	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looked	conj
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 smiled	obl
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 tears	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tears	nmod:poss
19	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 smiled	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	Theseus not said here	breath			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
2	look	past	Theseus			at Theseus's mother; joyfully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mother=Theme
3	smile	past	mother		mother's tears	upon Theseus	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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