Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 82
And all these mournful noises, issuing out of thousands of separate hearts, united themselves into one great sound of affliction, which had startled Theseus from slumber.
Who acts: mournful noises · What happens: issue, unite, startle · To what, where: thousands, affliction, slumber
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 (mournful noises), 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 | _ | 15 united | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 noises | det:predet |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 noises | det |
| 4 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 noises | amod |
| 5 | noises | noise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 united | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 issuing | punct |
| 7 | issuing | issue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 noises | acl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 thousands | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 thousands | case |
| 10 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 issuing | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hearts | case |
| 12 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hearts | amod |
| 13 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thousands | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 noises | punct |
| 15 | united | unite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 united | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 sound | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 sound | nummod |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sound | amod |
| 20 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 united | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 affliction | case |
| 22 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sound | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 startled | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 startled | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 startled | aux |
| 26 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 affliction | acl:relcl |
| 27 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 startled | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 slumber | case |
| 29 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 startled | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 united | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | gerund | all mournful noises not said here | thousands of separate hearts | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out thousand=Location | ||||
| 2 | unite | past | all mournful noises | thousands = thousand | into one great sound of affliction | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient into sound=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | startle | past · perfect · passive | affliction | slumber | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer theseus=Result |
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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