Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 93

But when they heard that Theseus had arrived in Athens, and learned what a gallant young man he was, they saw that he would not be at all the kind of a person to let them steal away his father's crown and scepter, which ought to be his own by right of inheritance.

Who acts: nephews, Theseus, crown, father · What happens: hear, arrive, learn, see, not be, let · To what, where: Athens, gallant young man, kind, nephews, crown · 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 (nephews, Theseus, crown, father), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 heard	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 arrived	mark
6	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 arrived	aux
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 heard	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Athens	case
10	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 learned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 learned	cc
13	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
14	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	18 man	det
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
16	gallant	gallant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 learned	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 was	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 man	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 kind	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 kind	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 kind	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 kind	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 kind	cop
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 kind	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 kind	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 kind	det
32	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	ccomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 person	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 person	det
35	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 kind	nmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 let	mark
37	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 saw	ccomp
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 let	obj
39	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 let	xcomp
40	away	away	ADV	_	39 steal	advmod
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 father	nmod:poss
42	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 crown	nmod:poss
43	's	's	PART	_	42 father	case
44	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 steal	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 scepter	cc
46	scepter	scepter	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 crown	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 own	punct
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 own	nsubj
49	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 own	aux
50	to	to	PART	_	53 own	mark
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 own	cop
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 own	nmod:poss
53	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 crown	amod
54	by	by	ADP	_	55 right	case
55	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 own	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 inheritance	case
57	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 right	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	nephews = nephew				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	arrive	past · perfect	Theseus		Athens		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	learn	past	nephews = nephew not said here	what gallant young man			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
4	see	past	nephews = nephew				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	not is	would	Theseus		all kind	of a person	tree rules
6	let	to-infinitive		nephews = nephew			tree rules
7	steal away	infinitive	nephews = nephew not said here	Theseus's father's crown and scepter		away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crown=Theme
8	is	ought	Theseus's father's crown and scepter			by right of inheritance; own property	tree rules
9	crown		Theseus's father				nom crown «communication 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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