Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 20

But still he followed the dreadful roar of the Minotaur, which now grew louder and louder, and finally so very loud that Theseus fully expected to come close upon him, at every new zizgag and wriggle of the path.

Who acts: Theseus, Minotaur, path · What happens: follow, grow, expect, come, roar, wriggle · To what, where: dreadful roar, new zizgag

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, Minotaur, path), 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	_	4 followed	cc
2	still	still	ADV	_	4 followed	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 followed	nsubj
4	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 roar	det
6	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 roar	amod
7	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 followed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Minotaur	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Minotaur	det
10	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 roar	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grew	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 grew	nsubj
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 grew	advmod
14	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Minotaur	acl:relcl
15	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 grew	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 louder	cc
17	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 louder	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 loud	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 loud	cc
20	finally	finally	ADV	_	23 loud	advmod
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 loud	advmod
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 loud	advmod
23	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 followed	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 expected	mark
25	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 expected	nsubj
26	fully	fully	ADV	_	27 expected	advmod
27	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 loud	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 come	mark
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 expected	xcomp
30	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 come	advmod
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 come	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 zizgag	punct
34	at	at	ADP	_	37 zizgag	case
35	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	37 zizgag	det
36	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 zizgag	amod
37	zizgag	zizgag	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 come	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 wriggle	cc
39	wriggle	wriggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 zizgag	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 path	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 path	det
42	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wriggle	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	Theseus	the dreadful roar of the Minotaur		still		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme
2	grow	past	the Minotaur			now	loud property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	expect	past	Theseus				fully property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here		every new zizgag and wriggle of the path		upon Theseus; close property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
5	roar		the Minotaur					nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent
6	wriggle		the path					nom wriggle «act intransitive»: of=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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