Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 74
She was a beautiful and tender-hearted maiden, and looked at these poor doomed captives with very different feelings from those of the iron-breasted King Minos.
Who acts: Ariadne · What happens: be, look, doom, breast · To what, where: beautiful hearted maiden
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 (Ariadne), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 maiden | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 maiden | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 maiden | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 maiden | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tender | cc |
| 6 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beautiful | conj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 tender | punct |
| 8 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 maiden | amod |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 maiden | parataxis |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 captives | case |
| 14 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 captives | nsubj |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 captives | amod |
| 16 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 captives | amod |
| 17 | captives | captive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 looked | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 feelings | case |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 different | advmod |
| 20 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feelings | amod |
| 21 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 captives | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 those | case |
| 23 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 feelings | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Minos | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Minos | det |
| 26 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 breasted | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 iron | punct |
| 28 | breasted | breast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 Minos | amod |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Minos | compound |
| 30 | Minos | Minos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 those | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Ariadne | a beautiful hearted maiden | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | at poor doomed captives with different feelings from those | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at captive=Theme | |||||
| 3 | doom | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | breast | participle | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: 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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