Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 2
Theseus, however, felt that he was in the right, and therefore would not give up his resolution.
Who acts: Theseus · What happens: feel, be, not give up, resolve · To what, where: right, resolution
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 (Theseus), 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 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Theseus | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 felt | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 right | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 right | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 right | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 right | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 right | det |
| 11 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 give | cc |
| 14 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 17 give | advmod |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 give | advmod |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 felt | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 give | compound:prt |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 resolution | nmod:poss |
| 20 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Theseus | however property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Theseus | the right | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not give up | would | Theseus not said here | Theseus's resolution | therefore property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolution=Source | |||
| 4 | resolve | Theseus | nom resolution «communication 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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