Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 69

In so doing, however, she unintentionally let fall about five hundred diamonds of the first water, together with a thousand great pearls, and two thousand emeralds, rubies, sapphires, opals, and topazes, to which she had helped herself out of the king's strong box.

Who acts: Medea · What happens: do, let, fall about, help · To what, where: hundred diamonds, Medea, strong box

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	In	in	SCONJ	_	3 doing	mark
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 doing	advmod
3	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 let	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	3 doing	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 doing	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	nsubj
8	unintentionally	unintentionally	ADV	_	9 let	advmod
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
11	about	about	ADV	_	13 hundred	advmod
12	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hundred	compound
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 diamonds	nummod
14	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fall	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 water	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 water	amod
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 diamonds	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 together	punct
20	together	together	ADV	_	10 fall	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	25 pearls	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 thousand	det
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 pearls	nummod
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pearls	amod
25	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fall	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 emeralds	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 emeralds	cc
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 thousand	compound
29	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 emeralds	nummod
30	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fall	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rubies	punct
32	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 emeralds	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sapphires	punct
34	sapphires	sapphire	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 emeralds	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 opals	punct
36	opals	opal	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 emeralds	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 topazes	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 topazes	cc
39	topazes	topaz	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 emeralds	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 helped	punct
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 which	case
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 helped	obl
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 helped	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 helped	aux
45	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 emeralds	acl
46	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 helped	obj
47	out	out	ADP	_	53 box	case
48	of	of	ADP	_	53 box	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 king	det
50	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 box	nmod:poss
51	's	's	PART	_	50 king	case
52	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 box	amod
53	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 helped	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	gerund	Medea not said here			however property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let	past	Medea			unintentionally property	tree rules
3	fall about	infinitive	Medea not said here	hundred diamonds of the first water		with thousand great pearls; thousand emeralds and rubies and sapphires and opals and topazes obl; together property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient diamond=Result
4	help	past · perfect	Medea	Medea	the king's strong box	to thousand emeralds and rubies and sapphires and opals and topazes	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary

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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