Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 96
It so happened that the king's nephews met Theseus, and found out who he was, just as he reached the entrance of the royal palace.
Who acts: It, nephews, Theseus · What happens: happen, meet, find out, reach · To what, where: Theseus, entrance
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 (It, nephews, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 met | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nephews | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | nephews | nephew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 met | nsubj |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 10 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 found | compound:prt |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 found | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 was | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 who | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 reached | punct |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 reached | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 reached | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reached | nsubj |
| 22 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 entrance | det |
| 24 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reached | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 palace | det |
| 27 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 palace | amod |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 entrance | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | the king's nephews | Theseus | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theseus=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | find out | past | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent who=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | reach | past | Theseus | the entrance of the royal palace | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent entrance=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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