Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 44
But just when Theseus and his companions thought the blow was coming, the brazen lips unclosed themselves, and the figure spoke.
Who acts: Theseus, blow, brazen lips, figure · What happens: think, come, unclos, speak · To what, where: brazen lips, lips · Speech: someone speaks here
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, blow, brazen lips, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 thought | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 thought | advmod |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 thought | advmod |
| 4 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 companions | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 companions | nmod:poss |
| 7 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Theseus | conj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 blow | det |
| 10 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coming | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 coming | aux |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lips | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lips | det |
| 15 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lips | amod |
| 16 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 coming | obl |
| 17 | unclosed | unclos | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 lips | acl |
| 18 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 unclosed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spoke | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 spoke | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 figure | det |
| 22 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spoke | nsubj |
| 23 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Theseus and Theseus's companions | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past · progressive | the blow | the brazen lips | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | unclos | participle | the brazen lips not said here | lips = lip | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | the figure | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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