Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 73
And now Prince Theseus was taken into great favor by his royal father.
Who acts: royal father · What happens: take · To what, where: Prince Theseus, great favor
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 (royal father), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 taken | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 taken | advmod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Theseus | compound |
| 4 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux:pass |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 favor | case |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 favor | amod |
| 9 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 father | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 father | amod |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | Theseus's royal father | Prince Theseus | great favor | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into favor=Destination |
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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