Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 62
Within the cavity lay a sword, with a golden hilt, and a pair of sandals.
What happens: lie · To what, where: sword
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: 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 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 3 cavity | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cavity | det |
| 3 | cavity | cavity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sword | det |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hilt | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hilt | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hilt | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hilt | amod |
| 11 | hilt | hilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pair | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pair | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pair | det |
| 15 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sandals | case |
| 17 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pair | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | a sword | within the cavity; with a golden hilt; a pair of sandals obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sword=Theme |
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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