Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 43
I really know not how it might have turned out, if the monster, in his first headlong rush against Theseus, had not missed him, by a hair's breadth, and broken one of his horns short off against the stone wall.
Who acts: I, monster · What happens: not know, turn out, not miss, break, rush · To what, where: fight, first headlong rush, Theseus, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, monster), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 know | advmod |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 know | advmod |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 turned | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 turned | aux |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 know | ccomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 turned | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 monster | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 monster | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 monster | det |
| 14 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rush | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 rush | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 rush | nmod:poss |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 rush | amod |
| 19 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rush | amod |
| 20 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 Theseus | case |
| 22 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 rush | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 missed | punct |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 missed | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 missed | advmod |
| 26 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 know | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 missed | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 breadth | punct |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 breadth | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 hair | det |
| 31 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 breadth | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 hair | case |
| 33 | breadth | breadth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 missed | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 broken | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 broken | cc |
| 36 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 know | conj |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 broken | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 horns | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 horns | nmod:poss |
| 40 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 one | nmod |
| 41 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 broken | xcomp |
| 42 | off | off | ADP | _ | 41 short | compound:prt |
| 43 | against | against | ADP | _ | 46 wall | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 wall | det |
| 45 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 wall | compound |
| 46 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 short | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | turn out | might · perfect · passive | fight | monster's first headlong rush against Theseus | the monster obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | not miss | past · perfect | I not said here | Theseus | by a hair's breadth | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | break | participle | I not said here | one of Theseus's horns | short property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient | |||
| 5 | rush | monster | against Theseus | nom rush «act transitive»: poss=agent against=obl |
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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