Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 88
Just before midnight, the door was softly unbarred, and the gentle Ariadne showed herself, with a torch in her hand.
Who acts: gentle Ariadne · What happens: unbar, show · To what, where: door, Ariadne
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 (gentle Ariadne), 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 | _ | 2 before | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 3 midnight | case |
| 3 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 unbarred | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 midnight | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 unbarred | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 unbarred | aux:pass |
| 8 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 9 unbarred | advmod |
| 9 | unbarred | unbar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 showed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 showed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Ariadne | det |
| 13 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Ariadne | amod |
| 14 | Ariadne | Ariadne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 showed | nsubj |
| 15 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 unbarred | conj |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 showed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 torch | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 torch | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 torch | det |
| 20 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 showed | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hand | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 torch | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 unbarred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unbar | past · passive | the door | midnight | softly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | show | past | the gentle Ariadne | Ariadne | with a torch in Ariadne's hand | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient |
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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