Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 29
Now King Aegeus had been gazing earnestly at the young stranger, as he drew near the throne.
Who acts: King · What happens: gaze, draw · To what, where: 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 (King), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 gazing | advmod |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gazing | nsubj |
| 3 | Aegeus | Aegeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gazing | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 gazing | aux |
| 6 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 6 gazing | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 stranger | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stranger | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stranger | amod |
| 11 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gazing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drew | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 drew | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drew | nsubj |
| 15 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gazing | conj |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 throne | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 throne | det |
| 18 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gazing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past · perfect · progressive | King | now | at the young stranger; earnestly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stranger=Theme | |||
| 2 | draw | past | king | the throne | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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