Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 87
"The Minotaur!" exclaimed Prince Theseus; and like a brave young prince as he was, he put his hand to the hilt of his sword. "
Who acts: Minotaur · What happens: exclaim, be, put · To what, where: Prince Theseus, hand
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 (Minotaur), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Minotaur | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Minotaur | det |
| 3 | Minotaur | Minotaur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Minotaur | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Minotaur | punct |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Theseus | compound |
| 8 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 prince | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 prince | cc |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 prince | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 13 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 prince | amod |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 prince | amod |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 was | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 was | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 exclaimed | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | nsubj |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 exclaimed | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 hilt | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hilt | det |
| 26 | hilt | hilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 sword | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sword | nmod:poss |
| 29 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hilt | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | the Minotaur | Prince Theseus | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent theseus=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be | past | Minotaur | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | past | Minotaur | Minotaur's hand | to the hilt of Minotaur's sword | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
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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