Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 77

As the guards were taking him away, she flung herself at the king's feet, and besought him to set all the captives free, and especially this one young man.

Who acts: guards, Ariadne, this · What happens: take away, fling, beseech, set, man · To what, where: Theseus, Ariadne, feet, captives

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 (guards, Ariadne, this), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 taking	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guards	det
3	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 taking	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taking	aux
5	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 flung	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 taking	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 taking	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 taking	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flung	nsubj
10	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 flung	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	16 feet	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 feet	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 king	case
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 flung	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 besought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 besought	cc
19	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 flung	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 besought	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 set	mark
22	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 besought	advcl
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 captives	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 captives	det
25	captives	captive	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 set	obj
26	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 set	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 man	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 man	cc
29	especially	especially	ADV	_	33 man	advmod
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 man	nsubj
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 man	nummod
32	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flung	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take away	past · progressive	the guards	Theseus		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	fling	past	Ariadne	Ariadne	the king's feet		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at foot=Destination
3	beseech	past	Ariadne not said here	Theseus			tree rules
4	set	to-infinitive	Ariadne not said here	all captives		free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient captive=Result
5	man		this			especially property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/5/77/