Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 83

As he would hear not another word in their favor, the prisoners were now led away, and clapped into a dungeon, where the jailer advised them to go to sleep as soon as possible, because the Minotaur was in the habit of calling for breakfast early.

Who acts: King, jailer, prisoners, Minotaur, habit, captives · What happens: not hear, lead away, clap, advise, go, sleep · To what, where: word, favor, prisoners, dungeon, habit · 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 (King, jailer, prisoners, Minotaur), 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	_	4 hear	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hear	advmod
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 favor	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 favor	nmod:poss
10	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 led	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prisoners	det
13	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 led	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 led	aux:pass
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 led	advmod
16	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hear	parataxis
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 led	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 clapped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 clapped	cc
20	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 led	parataxis
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 dungeon	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dungeon	det
23	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 clapped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 advised	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 advised	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 jailer	det
27	jailer	jailer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 advised	nsubj
28	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dungeon	acl:relcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 advised	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 go	mark
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 advised	xcomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 sleep	mark
33	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 go	advcl
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 soon	advmod
35	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 sleep	advmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 possible	mark
37	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 soon	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 habit	punct
39	because	because	SCONJ	_	45 habit	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Minotaur	det
41	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 habit	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 habit	cop
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 habit	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 habit	det
45	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 clapped	obl
46	of	of	SCONJ	_	47 calling	mark
47	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 habit	acl
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 breakfast	case
49	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 calling	obl
50	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 calling	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	would	King	another word	captives's favor			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	lead away	past · passive		the prisoners		now	away property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	clap	past			a dungeon			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into dungeon=Recipient
4	advise speech: other	past	the jailer	prisoners = prisoner				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	prisoners = prisoner not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sleep	to-infinitive	prisoners = prisoner not said here				soon property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	the Minotaur		the habit			tree rules
8	call	gerund	the habit not said here				for breakfast; early property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for breakfast=Recipient
9	favor		captives = captive					nom favor «act 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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