Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 20

Theseus stood among the sailors, gazing eagerly towards the land; although, as yet, it seemed hardly more substantial than the clouds, amidst which the mountains were looming up.

Who acts: Theseus, it, mountains · What happens: stand, gaze, seem, loom up · To what, where: sailors

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, it, mountains), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:276): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	among	among	ADP	_	5 sailors	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sailors	det
5	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gazing	punct
7	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
8	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	7 gazing	advmod
9	towards	towards	ADP	_	11 land	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 land	det
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gazing	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 seemed	punct
13	although	although	SCONJ	_	19 seemed	mark
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 although	punct
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 yet	case
16	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 seemed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 yet	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	advcl
20	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	22 substantial	advmod
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 substantial	advmod
22	substantial	substantial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 seemed	xcomp
23	than	than	ADP	_	25 clouds	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 clouds	det
25	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 substantial	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 looming	punct
27	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 looming	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mountains	det
30	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 looming	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 looming	aux
32	looming	loom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 clouds	acl:relcl
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 looming	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Theseus	the sailors		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among sailor=Location
2	gaze	gerund	Theseus not said here		towards the land; eagerly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards land=Theme
3	seem	past	it		substantial property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	loom up	past · progressive	the mountains		amidst the clouds	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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