Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 25

Theseus hated him, and shuddered at him, and yet could not but be sensible of some sort of pity; and all the more, the uglier and more detestable the creature was.

Who acts: Theseus, creature · What happens: hate, shudder, be, sort · To what, where: incapable, pity

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, creature), 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	2 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hated	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shuddered	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shuddered	cc
6	shuddered	shudder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hated	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shuddered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sensible	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 could	cc
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 could	advmod
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 sensible	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 could	advmod
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 sensible	cc
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 sensible	cop
16	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hated	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 sort	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 sort	det
19	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sensible	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 pity	case
21	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sort	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 uglier	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 uglier	cc
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 uglier	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 more	det
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 all	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 uglier	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 uglier	det
29	uglier	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 hated	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 detestable	cc
31	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 detestable	advmod
32	detestable	detestable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 uglier	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 creature	det
34	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 detestable	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 detestable	cop
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hate	past	Theseus	incapable		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	shudder	past	Theseus not said here		at Theseus	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at he=Stimulus
3	is	could			of some sort of pity; sensible property	tree rules
4	is	past	the creature		detestable property	tree rules
5	sort			pity		nom sort «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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