Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 47

At last, the Minotaur made a run at Theseus, grazed his left side with his horn, and flung him down; and thinking that he had stabbed him to the heart, he cut a great caper in the air, opened his bull mouth from ear to ear, and prepared to snap his head off.

Who acts: last Minotaur, Theseus · What happens: make, graze, fling down, think, stab, cut · To what, where: run, Theseus, left side, great caper, air, bull mouth · 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 (last Minotaur, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Minotaur	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Minotaur	det
5	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 run	det
8	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 Theseus	case
10	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grazed	punct
12	grazed	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 side	nmod:poss
14	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 side	amod
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grazed	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 horn	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 horn	nmod:poss
18	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grazed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flung	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flung	cc
21	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 flung	obj
23	down	down	ADP	_	21 flung	compound:prt
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 cut	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 cut	cc
26	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 cut	advcl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 stabbed	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stabbed	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stabbed	aux
30	stabbed	stab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 thinking	ccomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stabbed	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 heart	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 heart	det
34	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stabbed	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thinking	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 cut	nsubj
37	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	parataxis
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 caper	det
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 caper	amod
40	caper	caper	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cut	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 air	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 air	det
43	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cut	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 opened	punct
45	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 cut	parataxis
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 mouth	nmod:poss
47	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 mouth	compound
48	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 opened	obj
49	from	from	ADP	_	50 ear	case
50	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 opened	obl
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 ear	case
52	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 opened	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 prepared	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 prepared	cc
55	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 made	parataxis
56	to	to	PART	_	57 snap	mark
57	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 prepared	xcomp
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 head	nmod:poss
59	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 snap	obj
60	off	off	ADP	_	57 snap	compound:prt
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	the last Minotaur	a run		Theseus		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Product
2	graze	past		Theseus's left side			with Theseus's horn	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent side=Experiencer with horn=Instrument
3	fling down	past	the last Minotaur not said here	Theseus				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	think speech: other	gerund	Theseus not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	stab	past · perfect · passive		Theseus			to the heart	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient he=Result
6	cut	past	Theseus	a great caper		the air		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caper=Product
7	open	past		Theseus's bull mouth	ear		to ear	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient to ear=Recipient
8	prepare	participle						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
9	snap off not said to happen	to-infinitive		Theseus's head				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=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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