Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 97

And the sobs, and groans, and shrieks, with which the city was now filled, were caused by the people's woe, because the fatal day had come again, when the fourteen victims were to be chosen by lot; and the old people feared lest their sons or daughters might be taken, and the youths and damsels dreaded lest they themselves might be destined to glut the ravenous maw of that detestable man-brute.

Who acts: sobs, woe, lot, old people, youths · What happens: groan, shriek, fill, cause, come, choose · To what, where: city, fourteen victims, sons, victims, ravenous maw

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 (sobs, woe, lot, old people), 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	_	6 groans	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sobs	det
3	sobs	sob	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 groans	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 groans	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 groans	cc
6	groans	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shrieks	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shrieks	cc
9	shrieks	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 groans	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 filled	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 filled	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 city	det
14	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 filled	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 filled	aux:pass
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 filled	advmod
17	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 shrieks	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 caused	punct
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 caused	aux:pass
20	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 filled	conj
21	by	by	ADP	_	25 woe	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 people	det
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 woe	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 people	case
25	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 caused	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 come	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 day	det
29	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 day	amod
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	obl:unmarked
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
32	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 caused	conj
33	again	again	ADV	_	32 come	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 chosen	punct
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 chosen	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 victims	det
37	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 victims	nummod
38	victims	victim	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 chosen	nsubj:pass
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 chosen	aux:pass
40	to	to	PART	_	42 chosen	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 chosen	aux:pass
42	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 come	parataxis
43	by	by	ADP	_	44 lot	case
44	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 chosen	obl
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 feared	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 feared	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 people	det
48	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 people	amod
49	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 feared	nsubj
50	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 groans	parataxis
51	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	58 taken	mark
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 sons	nmod:poss
53	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 taken	nsubj
54	or	or	CCONJ	_	55 daughters	cc
55	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 sons	conj
56	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 taken	aux
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 taken	aux:pass
58	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 feared	advcl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 dreaded	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 dreaded	cc
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 youths	det
62	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 dreaded	nsubj
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 damsels	cc
64	damsels	damsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 youths	conj
65	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 feared	conj
66	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	71 destined	mark
67	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 destined	nsubj:pass
68	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	67 they	nmod:unmarked
69	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	71 destined	aux
70	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	71 destined	aux:pass
71	destined	destine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	65 dreaded	ccomp
72	to	to	PART	_	73 glut	mark
73	glut	glut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	71 destined	xcomp
74	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 maw	det
75	ravenous	ravenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	76 maw	amod
76	maw	maw	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 glut	obj
77	of	of	ADP	_	82 brute	case
78	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	82 brute	nsubj
79	detestable	detestable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	82 brute	amod
80	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 brute	compound
81	-	-	PUNCT	_	80 man	punct
82	brute	brute	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 maw	nmod
83	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 groans	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	groan	present	the sobs			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shriek	present				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fill	past · passive		the city	now	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with which=Instrument
4	cause	past · passive	the people's woe			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
5	come	past · perfect	the people's woe not said here		again; day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	choose	past · passive	lot	the fourteen victims		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
7	fear	past	the old people			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	take	might · passive		people's sons or daughters		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
9	dread	past	the youths and damsels			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	destine	might · passive		victims = victim		tree rules
11	glut	to-infinitive		the ravenous maw of detestable man brute		tree rules

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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