Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 86
His fame traveled faster than he did, and reached Athens before him.
Who acts: fame, sow · What happens: travel, do, reach · To what, where: Athens
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 (fame, sow), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 fame | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 traveled | nsubj |
| 3 | traveled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 traveled | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 did | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 faster | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reached | cc |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 traveled | conj |
| 11 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 traveled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | sow's fame | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | sow | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | sow's fame not said here | Athens | before sow | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent athens=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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