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Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 90

But King Aegeus shook his venerable head, and to convince Theseus that it was quite a hopeless case, he gave him an explanation of the whole affair.

Who acts: King, head, whole affair · What happens: shake, convince, be, give, explain · To what, where: venerable head, Theseus, hopeless case, explanation, 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 (King, head, whole affair), 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

ccnsubjflatnmod:possamodobjpunctccmarkconjobjmarknsubjcopdet:predetdetamodxcomppunctnsubjconjiobjdetobjcasedetamodnmodpunctrootButCCONJKingPROPNAegeusPROPNshookVERBhisPRONvenerableADJheadNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtoPARTconvinceVERBTheseusPRONthatSCONJitPRONwasAUXquiteDETaDEThopelessADJcaseNOUN,PUNCThePRONgaveVERBhimPRONanDETexplanationNOUNofADPtheDETwholeADJaffairNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_4 shookcc
2KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing4 shooknsubj
3AegeusAegeusPROPNNumber=Sing2 Kingflat
4shookshakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 headnmod:poss
6venerablevenerableADJDegree=Pos7 headamod
7headheadNOUNNumber=Sing4 shookobj
8,,PUNCT_11 convincepunct
9andandCCONJ_11 convincecc
10totoPART_11 convincemark
11convinceconvinceVERBVerbForm=Inf4 shookconj
12TheseustheseusPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 convinceobj
13thatthatSCONJ_19 casemark
14ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 casensubj
15wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 casecop
16quitequiteDETPronType=Ind19 casedet:predet
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 casedet
18hopelesshopelessADJDegree=Pos19 caseamod
19casecaseNOUNNumber=Sing11 convincexcomp
20,,PUNCT_22 gavepunct
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 gavensubj
22gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 shookconj
23himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 gaveiobj
24anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 explanationdet
25explanationexplanationNOUNNumber=Sing22 gaveobj
26ofofADP_29 affaircase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 affairdet
28wholewholeADJDegree=Pos29 affairamod
29affairaffairNOUNNumber=Sing25 explanationnmod
30..PUNCT_4 shookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1shakepastKingking's venerable headvn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2convinceto-infinitiveKing not said hereTheseusvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus theseus=Experiencer
3is apastheadquite hopeless casetree rules
4givepastkinga explanation of the whole affairhandvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient explanation=Theme
5explainthe whole affairnom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=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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