Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 77

Nor had he been long in Athens before he caught and chained a terrible mad bull, and made a public show of him, greatly to the wonder and admiration of good King Aegeus and his subjects.

Who acts: Nor · What happens: have, be, catch, chain, make, show · To what, where: Athens, terrible mad bull, public show, Nor, good King Aegeus

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 (Nor), 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	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 long	nsubj
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 long	cop
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Athens	case
7	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 long	obl
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 caught	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 caught	nsubj
10	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 chained	cc
12	chained	chain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 caught	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bull	det
14	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bull	amod
15	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bull	amod
16	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chained	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 made	cc
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 show	det
21	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 show	amod
22	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 show	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wonder	punct
26	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	29 wonder	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 wonder	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wonder	det
29	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 admiration	cc
31	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wonder	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 Aegeus	case
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Aegeus	amod
34	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Aegeus	compound
35	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 admiration	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 subjects	cc
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 subjects	nmod:poss
38	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 Aegeus	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Nor				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	Nor		Athens	long property	tree rules
3	catch	past	Nor				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	chain	past	Nor not said here	a terrible mad bull			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Patient
5	make	past	Nor not said here	a public show of Nor		to the wonder and admiration of good King Aegeus and Nor's subjects	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset show=Product
6	show			Nor			nom show «act transitive»: of=patient
7	admire			good King Aegeus and Nor's subjects			nom admiration «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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