Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 53
The vessel glided between the headlands of the port, and the giant resumed his march.
Who acts: vessel, giant · What happens: glide, resume · To what, where: headlands, march
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, giant), 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 vessel | det |
| 2 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glided | nsubj |
| 3 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 headlands | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 headlands | det |
| 6 | headlands | headland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 glided | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 port | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 port | det |
| 9 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 headlands | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 resumed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 resumed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 giant | det |
| 13 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 resumed | nsubj |
| 14 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glided | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 march | nmod:poss |
| 16 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 resumed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide | past | the vessel | the headlands of the port | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between headland=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | resume | past | the giant | giant's march | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent march=Eventuality |
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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