Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 98

But when Theseus heard the story, he straightened himself up, so that he seemed taller than ever before; and as for his face it was indignant, despiteful, bold, tender, and compassionate, all in one look.

Who acts: Theseus, story · What happens: hear, straighten up, seem, be · To what, where: story, Theseus

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 (Theseus, story), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 straightened	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
3	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 straightened	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 straightened	nsubj
9	straightened	straighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 straightened	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 straightened	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 seemed	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 straightened	conj
17	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 seemed	xcomp
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 before	mark
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 before	advmod
20	before	before	ADV	_	17 taller	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 face	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 face	cc
23	as	as	ADV	_	26 face	advmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 face	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 face	nmod:poss
26	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 straightened	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 indignant	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 indignant	cop
29	indignant	indignant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 face	amod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 despiteful	punct
31	despiteful	despiteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 indignant	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bold	punct
33	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 indignant	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tender	punct
35	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bold	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 compassionate	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 compassionate	cc
38	compassionate	compassionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 indignant	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 all	punct
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 compassionate	conj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 look	case
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 look	nummod
43	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 all	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 straightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Theseus	the story		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2	straighten up	past	Theseus	Theseus		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	seem	past	Theseus		tall property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	story		indignant property	tree rules
5	be		story not said here			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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