Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 26

But while the vessel flew faster and faster towards Crete, Theseus was astonished to behold a human figure, gigantic in size, which appeared to be striding, with a measured movement, along the margin of the island.

Who acts: vessel, Theseus, size · What happens: fly, be, behold, appear, stride, measure · To what, where: human figure, margin

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 (vessel, Theseus, size), 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	_	14 astonished	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 flew	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vessel	det
4	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	nsubj
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 astonished	advcl
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 flew	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 faster	cc
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 faster	conj
9	towards	towards	ADP	_	10 Crete	case
10	Crete	Crete	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 flew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flew	punct
12	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 astonished	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 astonished	cop
14	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 behold	mark
16	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 astonished	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 figure	det
18	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 figure	amod
19	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 behold	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gigantic	punct
21	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 figure	amod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 size	case
23	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gigantic	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 appeared	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 appeared	nsubj
26	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 size	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	29 striding	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 striding	aux
29	striding	stride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 appeared	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 movement	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 movement	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 movement	det
33	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 movement	amod
34	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 striding	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 margin	punct
36	along	along	ADP	_	38 margin	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 margin	det
38	margin	margin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 striding	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 island	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 island	det
41	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 margin	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the vessel			towards Crete; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards crete=Destination
2	is	past	Theseus			astonished property	tree rules
3	behold	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here	a human figure			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus
4	appear	past	size				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stride	to-infinitive · progressive	size not said here		the margin of the island		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along margin=Trajectory
6	measure	participle					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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