Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 20

Advancing to the foot of the throne, he attempted to make a little speech, which he had been thinking about, as he came up the stairs.

Who acts: Theseus, little speech · What happens: advance, attempt, make, think about, come up · To what, where: foot, little speech, stairs

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, little speech), 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	Advancing	advance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 attempted	advcl
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 foot	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 foot	det
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Advancing	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 throne	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 throne	det
7	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 foot	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Advancing	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 attempted	nsubj
10	attempted	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 make	mark
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 attempted	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 speech	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 speech	amod
15	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thinking	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 thinking	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thinking	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thinking	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 thinking	aux
21	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 speech	conj
22	about	about	ADV	_	21 thinking	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 came	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 attempted	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	29 stairs	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stairs	det
29	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 came	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 attempted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	advance	gerund	Theseus not said here		the foot of the throne		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location
2	attempt	past	Theseus				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here	a little speech			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product
4	think about speech: other	past · perfect · progressive	a little speech			about property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come up	past	Theseus	the stairs			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stair=Theme

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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