Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 59

"My son! my son!" cried King Aegeus, flinging away the fatal goblet, and tottering down from the throne to fall into the arms of Theseus. "

Who acts: son · What happens: cry, fling away, totter down, fall · To what, where: King Aegeus, fatal goblet, throne, arms

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 (son), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 son	appos
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Aegeus	compound
11	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flinging	punct
13	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cried	advcl
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 flinging	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 goblet	det
16	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 goblet	amod
17	goblet	goblet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flinging	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tottering	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tottering	cc
20	tottering	totter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cried	advcl
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 tottering	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 throne	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 throne	det
24	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tottering	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 fall	mark
26	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 tottering	advcl
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 arms	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 arms	det
29	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fall	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Theseus	case
31	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 arms	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	My son	King Aegeus			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aegeus=Topic
2	fling away	gerund	My son not said here	the fatal goblet		away property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Theme
3	totter down	gerund	My son not said here		the throne	down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from throne=Trajectory
4	fall	to-infinitive	My son not said here			into the arms of Theseus result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into arm=Result

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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