Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 56
Surrounded by these armed warriors, Prince Theseus and his companions were led to the king's palace, and ushered into his presence.
What happens: surround, lead, usher · To what, where: companions, palace, presence
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: 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 | Surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 warriors | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 warriors | det |
| 4 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warriors | amod |
| 5 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Surrounded | obl:agent |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Theseus | punct |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Theseus | compound |
| 8 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 warriors | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 led | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 companions | nmod:poss |
| 11 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 led | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 led | aux:pass |
| 13 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Theseus | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 palace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ushered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ushered | cc |
| 21 | ushered | usher | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Surrounded | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 presence | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 presence | nmod:poss |
| 24 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ushered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | lead | past · passive | Theseus's companions | the king's palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | usher | past | King's presence | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: 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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