Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 33
Bold as he was, however, I rather fancy that it strengthened his valiant heart, just at this crisis, to feel a tremulous twitch at the silken cord, which he was still holding in his left hand.
Who acts: Minotaur, I, last, silken cord · What happens: be, fancy, strengthen, feel, hold · To what, where: valiant heart, crisis, tremulous twitch, silken cord, left hand
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 (Minotaur, I, last, silken cord), 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 | Bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 was | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bold | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bold | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 1 Bold | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fancy | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fancy | nsubj |
| 9 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 10 fancy | advmod |
| 10 | fancy | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bold | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 strengthened | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 strengthened | nsubj |
| 13 | strengthened | strengthen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fancy | ccomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 heart | amod |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strengthened | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crisis | punct |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 crisis | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 crisis | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 crisis | det |
| 21 | crisis | crisis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heart | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 feel | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 feel | mark |
| 24 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 strengthened | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 twitch | det |
| 26 | tremulous | tremulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 twitch | amod |
| 27 | twitch | twitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 feel | obj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 cord | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cord | det |
| 30 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 cord | amod |
| 31 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 feel | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 holding | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 holding | nsubj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 holding | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 holding | aux |
| 36 | still | still | ADV | _ | 37 holding | advmod |
| 37 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 cord | acl:relcl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 hand | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 hand | nmod:poss |
| 40 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 hand | amod |
| 41 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 holding | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Minotaur | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fancy | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | strengthen | past | last | Minotaur's valiant heart | this crisis | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||
| 4 | feel | to-infinitive | last not said here | a tremulous twitch | the silken cord | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent twitch=Theme at cord=Location | |||
| 5 | hold | past · progressive | the silken cord | Minotaur's left hand | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |
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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