Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 11
The goblet was set on a table beside the king's throne; and a fly, meaning just to sip a little from the brim, immediately tumbled into it, dead.
What happens: set, mean, sip, tumble · To what, where: goblet, table, little, brim · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 goblet | det |
| 2 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux:pass |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 table | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 table | det |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 8 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 12 throne | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 throne | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 table | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 fly | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fly | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fly | det |
| 16 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 meaning | punct |
| 18 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 set | advcl |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 sip | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 sip | mark |
| 21 | sip | sip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 meaning | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 little | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sip | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 brim | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 brim | det |
| 26 | brim | brim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sip | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 tumbled | punct |
| 28 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 29 tumbled | advmod |
| 29 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 sip | parataxis |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 tumbled | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dead | punct |
| 33 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tumbled | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | the goblet | a table beside the king's throne | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on table=Destination | ||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | sip not said to happen | to-infinitive | a little | the brim | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient | ||||
| 4 | tumble | participle | goblet | immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial_Location |
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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