Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 52
His eyes had fallen on the gold-hilted sword that hung at the young man's side.
Who acts: eyes, hilted sword · What happens: fall, hilt, hang · To what, where: hilted sword, side
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 (eyes, hilted sword), 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 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fallen | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fallen | aux |
| 4 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sword | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sword | det |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hilted | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 gold | punct |
| 9 | hilted | hilt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sword | amod |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fallen | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hung | nsubj |
| 12 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sword | acl:relcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 side | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 man | case |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hung | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | Theseus's eyes | the hilted sword | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sword=Location | ||||
| 2 | hilt | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | hang | past | the hilted sword | the young man's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location |
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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