Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 13
Theseus had not taken five steps before he lost sight of Ariadne; and in five more his head was growing dizzy.
Who acts: Theseus, head · What happens: not take, lose, grow, sight · To what, where: Theseus, sight, Ariadne
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theseus, head), 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 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 taken | advmod |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 steps | nummod |
| 6 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taken | obj |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 lost | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lost | nsubj |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | advcl |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lost | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Ariadne | case |
| 12 | Ariadne | Ariadne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sight | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 more | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 more | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 five | case |
| 16 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 more | nummod |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 taken | obj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 growing | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 growing | aux |
| 21 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 more | parataxis |
| 22 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 growing | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | past · perfect · passive | Theseus | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lose | past | Theseus | sight of Ariadne | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | grow | past · progressive | Theseus's head | dizzy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sight | Ariadne | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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