Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 13
When Theseus was ushered into the royal apartment, the only object that he seemed to behold was the white-bearded old king.
Who acts: Theseus, only object · What happens: usher, seem, behold, be · To what, where: Theseus, royal apartment, only object, bearded old king
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: who acts (Theseus, only object), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 ushered | advmod |
| 2 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ushered | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ushered | aux:pass |
| 4 | ushered | usher | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 apartment | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 apartment | det |
| 7 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 apartment | amod |
| 8 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ushered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 object | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 object | det |
| 11 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 object | amod |
| 12 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 king | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 seemed | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 object | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 behold | case |
| 17 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 king | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bearded | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 white | punct |
| 22 | bearded | bearded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 king | amod |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 king | amod |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 apartment | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ushered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | usher | past · passive | Theseus | the royal apartment | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | Theseus | the only object not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | behold | infinitive | Theseus not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the only object | the bearded old king | 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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