Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 65

Medea staid only long enough to take her son with her, and to steal the crown jewels, together with the king's best robes, and whatever other valuable things she could lay hands on; and getting into the chariot, she whipped up the snakes, and ascended high over the city.

Who acts: Medea · What happens: take, steal, lay on, get, whip up, ascend · To what, where: son, crown jewels, hands, chariot, snakes, city

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 (Medea), 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	Medea	medea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 staid	compound
2	staid	staid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 staid	advmod
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 staid	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 staid	csubj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 take	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 steal	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 steal	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 steal	mark
15	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 take	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 jewels	det
17	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 jewels	compound
18	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 steal	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 robes	punct
20	together	together	ADV	_	26 robes	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	26 robes	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 robes	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 king	case
25	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 robes	amod
26	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 steal	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 whatever	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 whatever	cc
29	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 staid	punct
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
31	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 whatever	nsubj
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lay	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 lay	aux
35	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 things	acl:relcl
36	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 lay	obj
37	on	on	ADP	_	35 lay	compound:prt
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 whipped	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 whipped	cc
40	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 whipped	advcl
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 chariot	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 chariot	det
43	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 getting	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 getting	punct
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 whipped	nsubj
46	whipped	whip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 staid	conj
47	up	up	ADP	_	46 whipped	compound:prt
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 snakes	det
49	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 whipped	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 ascended	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 ascended	cc
52	ascended	ascend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 staid	conj
53	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	52 ascended	advmod
54	over	over	ADP	_	56 city	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 city	det
56	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 ascended	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 staid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	to-infinitive			Medea's son		with Medea	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=Destination
2	steal	to-infinitive		the crown jewels			with the king's best robes	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jewel=Theme
3	lay on	could	Medea	hands				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result
4	get	gerund	Medea not said here			the chariot		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into chariot=Destination
5	whip up	past	Medea	the snakes				vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent snake=Material
6	ascend	participle				the city	high property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over city=Initial_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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