Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 8

Just as Prince Theseus was going on board, his father bethought himself of one last word to say.

Who acts: Prince Theseus, father · What happens: go, bethink, say · To what, where: board, Theseus · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Prince Theseus, father), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Theseus	compound
4	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 board	case
8	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bethought	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bethought	nsubj
12	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	conj
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 bethought	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 word	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 word	nummod
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 word	amod
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bethought	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 say	mark
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 word	acl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Prince Theseus		board		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on board=Location
2	bethink	past	Theseus's father	Theseus		of one last word	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Theseus's father not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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