Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 80
One morning, when Prince Theseus awoke, he fancied that he must have had a very sorrowful dream, and that it was still running in his mind, even now that his eyes were opened.
Who acts: Prince Theseus, Theseus, dream · What happens: awake, fancy, have, run, open, mind · To what, where: sorrowful dream, mind, eyes
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 (Prince Theseus, Theseus, dream), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awoke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 awoke | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 awoke | advmod |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Theseus | compound |
| 6 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 awoke | nsubj |
| 7 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fancied | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fancied | nsubj |
| 10 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 awoke | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | aux |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 fancied | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dream | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 sorrowful | advmod |
| 18 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dream | amod |
| 19 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 running | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 running | cc |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 running | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 running | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 running | aux |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 running | advmod |
| 26 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 awoke | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 mind | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 mind | nmod:poss |
| 29 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 running | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 now | punct |
| 31 | even | even | ADV | _ | 32 now | advmod |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 running | advmod |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 opened | mark |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 35 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 opened | aux:pass |
| 37 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 now | acl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Prince Theseus | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fancy | past | Theseus | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have | must · perfect | Theseus | a sorrowful dream | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | ||||
| 4 | run | past · progressive | dream | Theseus's mind | still; now | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mind=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | open | past · passive | Theseus's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | mind | Theseus | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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