Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 38

But who ever saw a brazen image that had sense enough to walk round an island three times a day, as this giant walks round the island of Crete, challenging every vessel that comes nigh the shore?

Who acts: brazen image, vessel · What happens: see, have, walk, challenge, come · To what, where: brazen image, sense, island, vessel, shore

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 (brazen image, vessel), 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	_	4 saw	cc
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 saw	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 saw	advmod
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 image	det
6	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 image	amod
7	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 image	acl:relcl
10	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 had	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 walk	mark
13	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	advcl
14	round	round	ADP	_	16 island	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 island	det
16	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walk	obl
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 times	nummod
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 walk	obl:unmarked
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 times	nmod:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 walks	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 giant	mark
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 giant	nsubj
24	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 walks	advcl
25	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
26	round	round	ADP	_	28 island	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 island	det
28	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 walks	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Crete	case
30	Crete	Crete	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 island	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 challenging	punct
32	challenging	challenge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 walks	advcl
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 vessel	det
34	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 challenging	obj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 comes	nsubj
36	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 vessel	acl:relcl
37	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	36 comes	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 shore	det
39	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 comes	obl
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past		a brazen image		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer image=Stimulus
2	have	past	a brazen image	sense			enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
3	walk	to-infinitive	a brazen image not said here		a island	time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round island=Trajectory
4	walk	present			the island of Crete			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round island=Trajectory
5	challenge	gerund		every vessel				tree rules
6	come	present	every vessel	the shore			nigh property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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