Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 83

He put on his clothes as quickly as he could (not forgetting his sandals and gold-hilted sword), and, hastening to the king, inquired what it all meant.

Who acts: noise, air · What happens: put, not forget, hilt, hasten, inquire, mean · To what, where: clothes, sandals · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (noise, air), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 clothes	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 clothes	nmod:poss
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 put	obl
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 quickly	advmod
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 put	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 forgetting	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forgetting	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 forgetting	aux
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 forgetting	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 forgetting	advmod
13	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 put	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sandals	nmod:poss
15	sandals	sandal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 forgetting	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sword	cc
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hilted	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 gold	punct
19	hilted	hilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 sword	amod
20	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sandals	conj
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 sandals	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hastening	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hastening	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hastening	punct
25	hastening	hasten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 put	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 king	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hastening	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 inquired	punct
30	inquired	inquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 hastening	parataxis
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 meant	obj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 meant	nsubj
33	all	all	ADV	_	34 meant	advmod
34	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 inquired	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	noise		noise's clothes	quickly property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination
2	not forget	could	noise	noise's sandals and hilted sword			tree rules
3	hilt	participle					tree rules
4	hasten	gerund	noise not said here			to the king result	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to king=Result
5	inquire speech: other	participle					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	mean	past	air			all property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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