Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 3
Theseus even fancied a rude articulation in it, as if the creature that uttered it were trying to shape his hoarse breath into words.
Who acts: Theseus, creature · What happens: fancy, utter, try, shape · To what, where: rude articulation, articulation, creature, hoarse breath, words
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 | 3 fancied | nsubj |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 fancied | advmod |
| 3 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 articulation | det |
| 5 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 articulation | amod |
| 6 | articulation | articulation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fancied | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fancied | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 trying | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 trying | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 trying | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 creature | det |
| 13 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trying | nsubj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 uttered | nsubj |
| 15 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 creature | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 uttered | obj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 trying | aux |
| 18 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fancied | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 shape | mark |
| 20 | shape | shape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 trying | xcomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 breath | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hoarse | hoarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 breath | amod |
| 23 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shape | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 words | case |
| 25 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shape | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | Theseus | a rude articulation | articulation | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer articulation=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | the creature | creature | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | try | past · progressive | the creature | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | shape not said to happen | to-infinitive | the creature not said here | Theseus's hoarse breath | words | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent breath=Material into word=Product |
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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