Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 17

He would have left quite lost, and utterly hopeless of ever again walking in a straight path, if, every little while, he had not been conscious of a gentle twitch at the silken cord.

Who acts: Theseus · What happens: leave, lose, walk, not be · To what, where: straight path

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	aux
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 lost	advmod
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 left	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hopeless	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hopeless	cc
9	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	10 hopeless	advmod
10	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 left	conj
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 walking	mark
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 again	advmod
13	again	again	ADV	_	14 walking	advmod
14	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 hopeless	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 path	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 path	det
17	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 path	amod
18	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 left	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 while	punct
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 while	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 while	amod
24	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 conscious	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 conscious	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 conscious	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 conscious	advmod
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 conscious	cop
30	conscious	conscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 left	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 twitch	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 twitch	det
33	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 twitch	amod
34	twitch	twitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 conscious	obl
35	at	at	ADP	_	38 cord	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 cord	det
37	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 cord	amod
38	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 twitch	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	would · perfect	Theseus		while		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	participle	Theseus not said here				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	walk	gerund	Theseus not said here	a straight path	again		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in path=Trajectory
4	not is	past · perfect	Theseus			of a gentle twitch at the silken cord; conscious property	tree rules

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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