Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 88

Theseus took longer strides on hearing this, and fancied himself sure of a magnificent reception at his father's court, since he came thither with Fame to blow her trumpet before him, and cry to King Aegeus, "Behold your son!"

Who acts: Theseus · What happens: take, stride, hear, fancy, come, blow · To what, where: this, Theseus, trumpet, King

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	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 strides	advmod
4	strides	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 took	advcl
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 hearing	mark
6	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 strides	advcl
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 hearing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fancied	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fancied	cc
10	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 fancied	obj
12	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fancied	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 reception	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 reception	det
15	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 reception	amod
16	reception	reception	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sure	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	21 court	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 court	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 father	case
21	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reception	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
23	since	since	SCONJ	_	25 came	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
26	thither	thither	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 Fame	case
28	Fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 blow	mark
30	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 came	advcl
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 trumpet	nmod:poss
32	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blow	obj
33	before	before	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 blow	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 cry	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 cry	cc
37	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 King	case
39	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 cry	obl
40	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 King	flat
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 son	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 son	punct
43	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	45 son	discourse
44	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 son	nmod:poss
45	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	parataxis
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	45 son	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Theseus					vn require-103 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
2	stride	present	Theseus not said here				long property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	gerund	Theseus not said here	this				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
4	fancy	past	Theseus not said here	Theseus			sure property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus
5	come	past	Theseus				with Fame; thither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	blow	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here	fame's trumpet		before Theseus		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent trumpet=Patient
7	cry speech: express	infinitive			King			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient

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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