Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 26
He is so conscious of guilt, that he trembles and cannot speak.
Who acts: Theseus · What happens: be, tremble, not speak · 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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 conscious | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 conscious | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 conscious | advmod |
| 4 | conscious | conscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 guilt | case |
| 6 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conscious | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 trembles | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 trembles | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 trembles | nsubj |
| 10 | trembles | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 conscious | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 speak | cc |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 speak | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 speak | advmod |
| 14 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 trembles | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 conscious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Theseus | of guilt; conscious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tremble | present | Theseus | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not speak speech: other | can | Theseus not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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