Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 44
On this mishap, he bellowed so intolerably that a part of the labyrinth tumbled down, and all the inhabitants of Crete mistook the noise for an uncommonly heavy thunder storm.
Who acts: Theseus, inhabitants · What happens: bellow, tumble down, mistake · To what, where: mishap, part, noise
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, inhabitants), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 mishap | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 mishap | det |
| 3 | mishap | mishap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bellowed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mishap | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bellowed | nsubj |
| 6 | bellowed | bellow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 intolerably | advmod |
| 8 | intolerably | intolerably | ADV | _ | 6 bellowed | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 tumbled | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 part | det |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tumbled | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 labyrinth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 labyrinth | det |
| 14 | labyrinth | labyrinth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | nmod |
| 15 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bellowed | advcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 tumbled | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 mistook | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 mistook | cc |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 inhabitants | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 inhabitants | det |
| 21 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 mistook | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Crete | case |
| 23 | Crete | Crete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 inhabitants | nmod |
| 24 | mistook | mistake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bellowed | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 noise | det |
| 26 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mistook | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 storm | case |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 storm | det |
| 29 | uncommonly | uncommonly | ADV | _ | 30 heavy | advmod |
| 30 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 storm | amod |
| 31 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 storm | compound |
| 32 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mistook | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bellowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bellow | past | Theseus | this mishap | intolerably property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mishap=Location | |||
| 2 | tumble down | participle · passive | a part of the labyrinth | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mistake | past | all inhabitants of Crete | the noise | for a heavy thunder storm | tree rules |
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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