Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 99
Theseus consented; for he fancied that his father would know him in a moment, by the love that was in his heart.
Who acts: Theseus, father, love · What happens: consent, fancy, know, be · To what, where: Theseus, heart
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, love), 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 consented | nsubj |
| 2 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 fancied | punct |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 fancied | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fancied | nsubj |
| 6 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 consented | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fancied | ccomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 know | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 love | punct |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 love | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 love | det |
| 19 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fancied | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 heart | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 heart | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 heart | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 love | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | Theseus | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fancy | past | Theseus | by the love | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know | would | Theseus's father | Theseus | moment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is | past | the love | Theseus's heart | tree rules |
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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