Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 59
He bent his shaggy brows upon the poor Athenian victims.
Who acts: Crete · What happens: bend · To what, where: shaggy brows, poor Athenian victims
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 (Crete), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bent | nsubj |
| 2 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brows | nmod:poss |
| 4 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brows | amod |
| 5 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bent | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 victims | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 victims | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 victims | amod |
| 9 | Athenian | Athenian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 victims | compound |
| 10 | victims | victim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bent | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | Crete | Crete's shaggy brows | the poor Athenian victims | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent brow=Theme upon victim=Location |
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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