Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 94
But, however that might be, Ariadne opened all the doors, and led him forth from the darksome prison into the pleasant moonlight.
Who acts: Ariadne · What happens: be, open, lead · To what, where: doors, Theseus, darksome prison
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 opened | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 opened | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 be | nsubj |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 be | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 however | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 8 | Ariadne | Ariadne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 opened | nsubj |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 doors | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 doors | det |
| 12 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 opened | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 led | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 led | cc |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 opened | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 led | obj |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 15 led | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 prison | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prison | det |
| 20 | darksome | darksome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 prison | amod |
| 21 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 moonlight | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 moonlight | det |
| 24 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 moonlight | amod |
| 25 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | however property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | open | past | Ariadne | all doors | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | Ariadne not said here | Theseus | the darksome prison | into the pleasant moonlight; forth property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme from prison=Destination |
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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