Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 55

No sooner had they entered the harbor than a party of the guards of King Minos came down to the water side, and took charge of the fourteen young men and damsels.

Who acts: strides · What happens: enter, come down, take, charge · To what, where: harbor, water side, charge, fourteen young men

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 (strides), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 entered	advmod
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 entered	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 entered	nsubj
5	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 harbor	det
7	harbor	harbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 entered	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 party	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 party	det
10	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 guards	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 guards	det
13	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 party	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Minos	case
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Minos	compound
16	Minos	Minos	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 guards	nmod
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 entered	advcl
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 side	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 side	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 side	compound
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 entered	conj
26	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	31 men	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 men	det
29	fourteen	fourteen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 men	amod
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 men	amod
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 charge	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 damsels	cc
33	damsels	damsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 men	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	past	strides = stride	the harbor		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme harbor=Destination
2	come down	past	strides = stride not said here		the water side	than a party of the guards of King Minos; down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial_Location
3	take	past	strides = stride not said here	charge of the fourteen young men and damsels			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme
4	charge			the fourteen young men and damsels			nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient

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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