Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 61

Theseus looked, and saw that the rock had been placed over another slab of stone, containing a cavity within it; so that it somewhat resembled a roughly-made chest or coffer, of which the upper mass had served as the lid.

Who acts: Theseus, rock · What happens: look, see, place, contain, resemble, make · To what, where: rock, slab, cavity, made chest, upper mass · Speech: someone speaks here

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, rock), 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	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 saw	cc
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 placed	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rock	det
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 placed	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 placed	aux:pass
11	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 saw	ccomp
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 slab	case
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 slab	det
14	slab	slab	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 stone	case
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 slab	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 containing	punct
18	containing	contain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 placed	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cavity	det
20	cavity	cavity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 containing	obj
21	within	within	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 containing	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 resembled	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 resembled	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 resembled	nsubj
27	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	28 resembled	advmod
28	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 chest	det
30	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	32 made	advmod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 roughly	punct
32	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 chest	amod
33	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 resembled	obj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 coffer	cc
35	coffer	coffer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 chest	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 served	punct
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 which	case
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 served	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 mass	det
40	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 mass	amod
41	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 served	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 served	aux
43	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 resembled	conj
44	as	as	ADP	_	46 lid	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 lid	det
46	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 served	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	Theseus				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	Theseus not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	place	past · perfect · passive		the rock	another slab of stone		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over slab=Destination
4	contain	gerund		a cavity		within stone	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cavity=Theme
5	resemble	past	rock	a made chest or coffer		somewhat property	tree rules
6	make	participle				roughly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	serve	past · perfect · passive		the upper mass		as the lid	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as lid=Attribute

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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