Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 14

There he sat on his magnificent throne, a dazzling crown on his head, and a scepter in his hand.

Who acts: Theseus · What happens: sit, dazzle · To what, where: magnificent throne

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), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 sat	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 throne	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 throne	nmod:poss
6	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 throne	amod
7	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 crown	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 crown	det
10	dazzling	dazzle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 crown	amod
11	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crown	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 scepter	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 scepter	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 scepter	det
18	scepter	scepter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 hand	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hand	nmod:poss
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scepter	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Theseus			Theseus's magnificent throne; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
2	dazzle	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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