Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 84
The seven maidens and six of the young men soon sobbed themselves to slumber.
Who acts: seven maidens · What happens: sob, slumber · To what, where: maidens
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 (seven maidens), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maidens | det |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 maidens | nummod |
| 3 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sobbed | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 six | cc |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 maidens | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 men | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 six | nmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 sobbed | advmod |
| 11 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 sobbed | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 slumber | mark |
| 14 | slumber | slumber | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sobbed | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sobbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sob | past | the seven maidens | maidens = maiden | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | slumber | to-infinitive | the seven maidens not said here | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: 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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