Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 15

His aspect was stately and majestic, although his years and infirmities weighed heavily upon him, as if each year were a lump of lead, and each infirmity a ponderous stone, and all were bundled up together, and laid upon his weary shoulders.

Who acts: aspect, years, year, infirmity · What happens: be, weigh, stone, bundle up, lay · To what, where: lump, all, weary shoulders

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 (aspect, years, year, infirmity), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aspect	nmod:poss
2	aspect	aspect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 majestic	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 majestic	cop
4	stately	stately	ADV	_	6 majestic	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 majestic	cc
6	majestic	majestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 weighed	punct
8	although	although	SCONJ	_	13 weighed	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 years	nmod:poss
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 weighed	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 infirmities	cc
12	infirmities	infirmity	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 years	conj
13	weighed	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 majestic	parataxis
14	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	13 weighed	advmod
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 weighed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lump	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 lump	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 lump	mark
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 year	det
21	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lump	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lump	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lump	det
24	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 weighed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 lead	case
26	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lump	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stone	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 stone	cc
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 infirmity	det
30	infirmity	infirmity	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stone	nsubj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 stone	det
32	ponderous	ponderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stone	amod
33	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 weighed	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 bundled	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 bundled	cc
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 bundled	nsubj:pass
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 bundled	aux:pass
38	bundled	bundle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 weighed	conj
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 bundled	compound:prt
40	together	together	ADV	_	38 bundled	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 laid	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 laid	cc
43	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 weighed	conj
44	upon	upon	ADP	_	47 shoulders	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 shoulders	nmod:poss
46	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 shoulders	amod
47	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 laid	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 majestic	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Theseus's aspect			majestic, stately property	tree rules
2	weigh	past	Theseus's years and infirmities			upon Theseus; heavily property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	each year	a lump		of lead	tree rules
4	stone		each infirmity				tree rules
5	bundle up	past · passive		all		together property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	lay	past	Theseus's years and infirmities not said here		Theseus's weary shoulders		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon shoulder=Destination

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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