Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 60

Any other mortal, beholding their fresh and tender beauty, and their innocent looks, would have felt himself sitting on thorns until he had made every soul of them happy by bidding them go free as the summer wind.

Who acts: other mortal, mortal · What happens: behold, feel, sit, make, bid, go · To what, where: fresh beauty, mortal, thorns, soul, beauty

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 (other mortal, mortal), 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	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 mortal	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mortal	amod
3	mortal	mortal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 felt	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beholding	punct
5	beholding	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 mortal	acl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 beauty	nmod:poss
7	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 beauty	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tender	cc
9	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fresh	conj
10	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beholding	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looks	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looks	cc
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 looks	nmod:poss
14	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 looks	amod
15	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 beauty	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mortal	punct
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 felt	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 felt	aux
19	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 felt	obj
21	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 felt	advcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 thorns	case
23	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sitting	obl
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 made	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 made	aux
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 felt	advcl
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 soul	det
29	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 soul	nmod
32	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 made	xcomp
33	by	by	SCONJ	_	34 bidding	mark
34	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 made	advcl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 bidding	obj
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 bidding	xcomp
37	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 go	xcomp
38	as	as	ADP	_	41 wind	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wind	det
40	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wind	compound
41	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 free	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	behold	gerund	any other mortal not said here	victims's fresh beauty and victims's innocent looks			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus
2	feel	would · perfect	any other mortal	mortal			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	sit	gerund	any other mortal not said here		thorns		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on thorn=Location
4	make	past · perfect	mortal	every soul of victims		happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Product
5	bid	gerund	mortal not said here	beauty			tree rules
6	go	infinitive	mortal not said here			free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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