Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 45

Smarting with the pain, he galloped around the open space in so ridiculous a way that Theseus laughed at it, long afterwards, though not precisely at the moment.

Who acts: Theseus · What happens: smart, gallop, laugh · To what, where: open space, way

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), 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	Smarting	smart	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 galloped	advcl
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 pain	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pain	det
4	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Smarting	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Smarting	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 galloped	nsubj
7	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	around	around	ADP	_	11 space	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 space	det
10	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 space	amod
11	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 galloped	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 ridiculous	case
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 ridiculous	advmod
14	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 galloped	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ridiculous	obl:unmarked
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 laughed	mark
18	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 laughed	nsubj
19	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 way	acl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 laughed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 long	punct
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ridiculous	conj
24	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 moment	punct
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 moment	mark
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 precisely	advmod
28	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	31 moment	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 moment	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 moment	det
31	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 galloped	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 galloped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smart	gerund	Theseus not said here				with the pain	vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	gallop	past	Theseus		the open space	moment	in ridiculous	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around space=Trajectory
3	laugh	past	Theseus	a way not said here	way			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme

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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