Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 7

Theseus was very fond of hearing about King Aegeus, and often asked his good mother Aethra why he did not come and live with them at Troezene.

Who acts: Theseus · What happens: be, hear, ask, not come, live · To what, where: good mother, Troezene

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), 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	4 fond	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 fond	advmod
4	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 hearing	mark
6	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fond	advcl
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 Aegeus	case
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Aegeus	compound
9	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hearing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 asked	cc
12	often	often	ADV	_	13 asked	advmod
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mother	amod
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obj
17	Aethra	Aethra	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 mother	appos
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 come	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 come	advmod
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 live	cc
24	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 come	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 live	obl
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 Troezene	case
28	Troezene	Troezene	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 live	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Theseus			fond property	tree rules
2	hear	gerund	Theseus not said here			about King Aegeus	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about aegeus=Stimulus
3	ask speech: ask	past	Theseus not said here	Theseus's good mother		often property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not come not said to happen	past · do-support	Theseus				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	live	infinitive	Theseus not said here		Troezene	with city	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location

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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