Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 48
But Theseus by this time had leaped up, and caught the monster off his guard.
What happens: leap up, catch off · To what, where: Theseus, guard, monster
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 leaped | cc |
| 2 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 leaped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Theseus | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 leaped | aux |
| 7 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 leaped | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caught | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 caught | cc |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 leaped | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 monster | det |
| 13 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caught | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 caught | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 guard | nmod:poss |
| 16 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caught | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap up | past · perfect · passive | Theseus by this time | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | catch off | past | Theseus's guard | the monster | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent monster=Beneficiary guard=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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