Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 91

It seems that in the island of Crete there lived a certain dreadful monster, called a Minotaur, which was shaped partly like a man and partly like a bull, and was altogether such a hideous sort of a creature that it is really disagreeable to think of him.

Who acts: It, island · What happens: seem, live, call, shape, be, think · To what, where: certain dreadful monster, Minotaur, hideous sort · 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 (It, island), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seems	nsubj
2	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 lived	mark
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 island	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 island	det
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Crete	case
8	Crete	Crete	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 island	nmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 island	advmod
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seems	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 monster	det
12	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 monster	amod
13	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 monster	amod
14	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 monster	acl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Minotaur	det
18	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 called	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shaped	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 shaped	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 shaped	aux:pass
22	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 Minotaur	acl
23	partly	partly	ADV	_	22 shaped	advmod
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 man	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shaped	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bull	cc
28	partly	partly	ADV	_	31 bull	advmod
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 bull	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bull	det
31	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 man	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sort	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 sort	cc
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 sort	cop
35	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	39 sort	advmod
36	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	39 sort	det:predet
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 sort	det
38	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sort	amod
39	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seems	parataxis
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 creature	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 creature	det
42	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sort	nmod
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 disagreeable	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 disagreeable	nsubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 disagreeable	cop
46	really	really	ADV	_	47 disagreeable	advmod
47	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 creature	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 think	mark
49	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 disagreeable	csubj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 think	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	It			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	the island of Crete	a certain dreadful monster		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme monster=Location
3	call	participle		a certain dreadful monster not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shape	past · passive		a Minotaur	like a man and a bull; partly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
5	is a	past		such hideous sort	of a creature; altogether property	tree rules
6	is	present	it		disagreeable property	tree rules
7	think speech: other	to-infinitive			of bull	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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