Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 54

In a few moments, this wondrous sentinel was far away, flashing in the distant sunshine, and revolving with immense strides round the island of Crete, as it was his never-ceasing task to do.

Who acts: wondrous sentinel, sentinel · What happens: be, flash, revolve, not cease, do · To what, where: distant sunshine, island, ceasing task

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 (wondrous sentinel, sentinel), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 moments	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moments	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moments	amod
4	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 away	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 moments	punct
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 sentinel	det
7	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sentinel	amod
8	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 away	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 away	cop
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 away	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 away	punct
13	flashing	flash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 away	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 sunshine	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sunshine	det
16	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sunshine	amod
17	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flashing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 revolving	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 revolving	cc
20	revolving	revolve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 flashing	advcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 strides	case
22	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 strides	amod
23	strides	stride	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 revolving	obl
24	round	round	ADP	_	26 island	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 island	det
26	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 revolving	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Crete	case
28	Crete	Crete	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 island	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 task	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 task	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 task	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 task	cop
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 task	nmod:poss
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 ceasing	advmod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 never	punct
36	ceasing	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 task	amod
37	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 revolving	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 do	mark
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 task	acl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 away	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this wondrous sentinel			moment	away, far property	tree rules
2	flash	gerund	this wondrous sentinel not said here		the distant sunshine			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location
3	revolve	gerund	this wondrous sentinel not said here		the island of Crete		with immense strides	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round island=Trajectory
4	not cease	gerund						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	is a	past	sentinel	Crete's ceasing task				tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive	this wondrous sentinel not said here					vn act-114-1 «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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