Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 104

Nevertheless, Ariadne did but press one of her soft little fingers against a particular block of marble and, though it looked as solid as any other part of the wall, it yielded to her touch, disclosing an entrance just wide enough to admit them They crept through, and the marble stone swung back into its place.

Who acts: Ariadne, wall, fingers, marble stone · What happens: press, look, yield, disclose, admit, creep · To what, where: one, entrance, fingers, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ariadne, wall, fingers, marble stone), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	6 press	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nevertheless	punct
3	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 press	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 press	aux
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 press	cc
6	press	press	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 press	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 fingers	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fingers	nmod:poss
10	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fingers	amod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fingers	amod
12	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
13	against	against	ADP	_	16 block	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 block	det
15	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 block	amod
16	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 press	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 marble	case
18	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 block	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 looked	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looked	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 looked	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 looked	nsubj
23	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 press	conj
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 solid	advmod
25	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 looked	xcomp
26	as	as	ADP	_	29 part	case
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 part	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 part	amod
29	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 solid	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 wall	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wall	det
32	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 part	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 yielded	punct
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 yielded	nsubj
35	yielded	yield	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 press	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 touch	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 touch	nmod:poss
38	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 yielded	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 disclosing	punct
40	disclosing	disclose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 yielded	advcl
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 entrance	det
42	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 disclosing	obj
43	just	just	ADV	_	44 wide	advmod
44	wide	wide	ADV	_	40 disclosing	advmod
45	enough	enough	ADV	_	44 wide	advmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 admit	mark
47	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 disclosing	advcl
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 admit	obj
49	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 crept	nsubj
50	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 admit	ccomp
51	through	through	ADV	_	50 crept	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 swung	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 swung	cc
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 stone	det
55	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 stone	compound
56	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 swung	nsubj
57	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 yielded	conj
58	back	back	ADV	_	57 swung	advmod
59	into	into	ADP	_	61 place	case
60	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 place	nmod:poss
61	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 swung	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 press	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	press	past · do-support	Ariadne	one of Ariadne's soft little fingers		against a particular block of marble; nevertheless property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	look	past	wall			solid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	yield	past	wall			to Ariadne's touch	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to touch=Theme
4	disclose	gerund	wall not said here	a entrance		wide property	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot entrance=Topic
5	admit speech: other	to-infinitive	wall not said here	fingers = finger			tree rules
6	creep	past	fingers = finger			through property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	swing back	past	the marble stone		wall's place		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into place=Trajectory
8	touch		Ariadne				nom touch «event transitive»: poss=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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