Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 76

And when she beheld the brave, spirited figure of Prince Theseus bearing himself so calmly in his terrible peril, she grew a hundred times more pitiful than before.

Who acts: Ariadne, brave spirited figure, Theseus · What happens: behold, bear, grow, figure, peril · To what, where: brave spirited figure, terrible peril, Theseus, Prince 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 (Ariadne, brave spirited figure, Theseus), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 grew	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 beheld	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beheld	nsubj
4	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 grew	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 figure	det
6	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 figure	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brave	punct
8	spirited	spirited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 figure	amod
9	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beheld	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Theseus	case
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Theseus	compound
12	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 figure	nmod
13	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 figure	acl
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 bearing	obj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 calmly	advmod
16	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	4 beheld	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 peril	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 peril	nmod:poss
19	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 peril	amod
20	peril	peril	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beheld	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 beheld	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 grew	nsubj
23	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hundred	det
25	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 times	nummod
26	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 more	obl:unmarked
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 pitiful	advmod
28	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grew	xcomp
29	than	than	ADP	_	30 before	case
30	before	before	ADV	_	28 pitiful	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	behold	past	Ariadne	the brave spirited figure of Prince Theseus	Theseus's terrible peril	calmly property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus
2	bear	gerund	the brave spirited figure of Prince Theseus not said here	Theseus			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	grow	past	Ariadne			pitiful property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	figure			Prince Theseus			nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	peril		Theseus				nom peril «state transitive»: poss=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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