Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 64
But when his eyes rested on Theseus, the king looked at him more attentively, because his face was calm and brave.
Who acts: eyes, king, face · What happens: rest, look, be · To what, where: Theseus
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 (eyes, king, face), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 rested | advmod |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rested | nsubj |
| 5 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Theseus | case |
| 7 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rested | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rested | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | obl |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 attentively | advmod |
| 15 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 11 looked | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 calm | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 calm | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 calm | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 calm | cop |
| 21 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looked | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 brave | cc |
| 23 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 calm | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | King's eyes | Theseus | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on theseus=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the king | at Theseus; attentively property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | King's face | calm property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | King's face not said here | tree rules |
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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