Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 89

He little suspected, innocent youth that he was, that here, in this very Athens, where his father reigned, a greater danger awaited him than any which he had encountered on the road.

Who acts: Theseus, father, greater danger · What happens: suspect, be, reign, await, encounter · To what, where: Theseus, Athens, road

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, father, greater danger), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 suspected	nsubj:pass
2	little	little	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 suspected	aux:pass
3	suspected	suspect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 youth	punct
5	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 youth	amod
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suspected	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 here	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 here	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 here	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 here	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 here	mark
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 suspected	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Athens	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 Athens	case
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 Athens	nsubj
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 Athens	advmod
17	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 suspected	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 reigned	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 reigned	advmod
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reigned	nsubj
22	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Athens	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 awaited	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 danger	det
25	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 danger	amod
26	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 awaited	nsubj
27	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 reigned	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 awaited	obj
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	34 encountered	mark
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 encountered	det
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 encountered	nsubj:pass
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 encountered	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 encountered	aux
34	encountered	encounter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 awaited	advcl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 road	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 road	det
37	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 encountered	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 suspected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suspect	past · passive		Theseus	Athens	innocent youth obl	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
2	is	past	Theseus			here property	tree rules
3	reign	past	Theseus's father				tree rules
4	await	past	a greater danger	Theseus			tree rules
5	encounter	past · perfect · passive			the road		vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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