Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 74

But he let the sun and wind dry them, and walked stoutly on, playing with the golden hilt of his sword, and taking very manly strides in his father's sandals.

Who acts: Theseus, sun · What happens: let, dry, walk, play, take · To what, where: roads, manly strides, sandals

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, sun), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 let	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dry	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wind	cc
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sun	conj
8	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 let	parataxis
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dry	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 walked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 walked	cc
12	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
13	stoutly	stoutly	ADV	_	14 on	advmod
14	on	on	ADV	_	12 walked	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 playing	punct
16	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 walked	advcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 hilt	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hilt	det
19	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hilt	amod
20	hilt	hilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 playing	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 sword	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sword	nmod:poss
23	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hilt	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 taking	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 taking	cc
26	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 playing	conj
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 manly	advmod
28	manly	manly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 strides	amod
29	strides	stride	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 taking	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	34 sandals	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 father	nmod:poss
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sandals	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 father	case
34	sandals	sandal	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 taking	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	past	Theseus				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	dry	present	the sun and wind	roads = road			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result
3	walk	past	Theseus not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	play	gerund	Theseus not said here			with the golden hilt of Theseus's sword	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hilt=Theme
5	take	gerund	Theseus not said here	manly strides	Theseus's father's sandals		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stride=Value in sandal=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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