Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 42
Without more words on either side, there ensued the most awful fight between Theseus and the Minotaur that ever happened beneath the sun or moon.
Who acts: Minotaur · What happens: ensue, happen · To what, where: awful fight, sun
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), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ensued | obl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 side | det |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 words | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 ensued | expl |
| 9 | ensued | ensue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fight | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 awful | advmod |
| 12 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fight | amod |
| 13 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ensued | obj |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 Theseus | case |
| 15 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fight | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Minotaur | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Minotaur | det |
| 18 | Minotaur | minotaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Theseus | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 happened | nsubj |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 happened | advmod |
| 21 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Minotaur | acl:relcl |
| 22 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 24 sun | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sun | det |
| 24 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 happened | obl |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 moon | cc |
| 26 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sun | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ensued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ensue | past | the awful fight | there | without more words on either side; between Theseus and the Minotaur | tree rules | |||
| 2 | happen | past | the Minotaur | the sun or moon | ever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beneath sun=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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