Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 87

As he entered the city, he heard the inhabitants talking at the street corners, and saying that Hercules was brave, and Jason too, and Castor and Pollux likewise, but that Theseus, the son of their own king, would turn out as great a hero as the best of them.

Who acts: sow, inhabitants, Hercules · What happens: enter, hear, talk, say, be, turn out · To what, where: city, inhabitants, street corners · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sow, inhabitants, Hercules), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 entered	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 entered	nsubj
3	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 city	det
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entered	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 entered	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 inhabitants	det
10	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heard	obj
11	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 inhabitants	acl
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 corners	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 corners	det
14	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 corners	compound
15	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 talking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saying	cc
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 heard	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 brave	mark
20	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 brave	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 brave	cop
22	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 saying	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Jason	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Jason	cc
25	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl
26	too	too	ADV	_	25 Jason	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Castor	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Castor	cc
29	Castor	Castor	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 heard	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Pollux	cc
31	Pollux	Pollux	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Castor	conj
32	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	29 Castor	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 turn	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 turn	cc
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 Theseus	mark
36	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 turn	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 son	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 son	det
39	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Theseus	appos
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 king	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 king	nmod:poss
42	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 king	amod
43	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 son	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Theseus	punct
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 turn	aux
46	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 heard	conj
47	out	out	ADP	_	46 turn	compound:prt
48	as	as	ADP	_	51 hero	case
49	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 hero	amod
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 hero	det
51	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 turn	obl
52	as	as	ADP	_	54 best	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 best	det
54	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	46 turn	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 them	case
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 best	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	past	sow	the city			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Destination
2	hear	past	sow	the inhabitants		Jason obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer inhabitant=Stimulus
3	talk	gerund	the inhabitants not said here		the street corners		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	gerund	sow not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Hercules			brave property	tree rules
6	turn out	would	sow not said here			as a great hero; as the best of Castor	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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