Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 77

One of these bad people was named Procrustes; and he was indeed a terrible fellow, and had an ugly way of making fun of the poor travelers who happened to fall into his clutches.

Who acts: Theseus, terrible fellow, ugly way, poor travelers · What happens: name, be, have, make, happen, fall · To what, where: One, terrible fellow, ugly way, fun, clutches

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, terrible fellow, ugly way, poor travelers), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 named	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 people	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 people	det
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 named	aux:pass
7	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	Procrustes	Procruste	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 named	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 fellow	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fellow	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fellow	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fellow	cop
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 fellow	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fellow	det
15	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fellow	amod
16	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 named	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fellow	acl:relcl
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 way	det
21	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 way	amod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 making	mark
24	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 way	acl
25	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 making	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 travelers	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 travelers	det
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 travelers	amod
29	travelers	traveler	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fun	nmod
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 happened	nsubj
31	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 travelers	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 fall	mark
33	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 happened	xcomp
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 clutches	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 clutches	nmod:poss
36	clutches	clutch	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fall	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 named	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	name	past · passive		One of this bad people		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	past	Theseus	a terrible fellow	indeed property	tree rules
3	have	past	a terrible fellow not said here	a ugly way		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
4	make	gerund	a ugly way not said here	fun of the poor travelers		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
5	happen	past	the poor travelers			tree rules
6	fall	to-infinitive	the poor travelers not said here		into Theseus's clutches result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into clutch=Result
7	clutch		Theseus			nom clutch «act transitive»: poss=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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