Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 21
And at last, in an open space, at the very center of the labyrinth, he did discern the hideous creature.
Who acts: Theseus · What happens: discern · To what, where: hideous creature, last
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 discern | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 discern | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 space | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 space | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 space | det |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 space | amod |
| 8 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 last | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 center | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 center | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 center | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 center | advmod |
| 13 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 space | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 labyrinth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 labyrinth | det |
| 16 | labyrinth | labyrinth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 center | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 last | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 discern | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 discern | aux |
| 20 | discern | discern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 creature | det |
| 22 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 creature | amod |
| 23 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 discern | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 discern | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discern | past · do-support | Theseus | the hideous creature | last | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus |
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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