Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 31
The figure looked all the more terrible because it carried an enormous brass club on its shoulder.
Who acts: figure · What happens: look, carry · To what, where: enormous brass club, shoulder
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 (figure), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 figure | det |
| 2 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 terrible | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 terrible | det |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 terrible | advmod |
| 7 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | xcomp |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 carried | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carried | nsubj |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | advcl |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 club | det |
| 12 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 club | amod |
| 13 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 club | compound |
| 14 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 shoulder | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 club | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the figure | terrible property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | figure | a enormous brass club | figure's shoulder | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=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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