Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 5
"That is the Minotaur's noise," whispered Ariadne, closely grasping the hand of Theseus, and pressing one of her own hands to her heart, which was all in a tremble. "
Who acts: That, noise, heart · What happens: be, whisper, grasp, press · To what, where: noise, Ariadne, hand, one, tremble · 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 (That, noise, heart), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 noise | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 noise | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 noise | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Minotaur | det |
| 5 | Minotaur | Minotaur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 noise | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Minotaur | case |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whispered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 noise | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 whispered | punct |
| 10 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Ariadne | Ariadne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 whispered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grasping | punct |
| 13 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 14 grasping | advmod |
| 14 | grasping | grasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 whispered | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hand | det |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grasping | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Theseus | case |
| 18 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hand | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pressing | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pressing | cc |
| 21 | pressing | press | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 whispered | advcl |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 pressing | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 hands | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hands | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hands | amod |
| 26 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 one | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 heart | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 heart | nmod:poss |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pressing | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 tremble | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 tremble | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 tremble | cop |
| 33 | all | all | ADV | _ | 36 tremble | advmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 tremble | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 tremble | det |
| 36 | tremble | tremble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 heart | appos |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 tremble | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 tremble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | the Minotaur's noise | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | the Minotaur's noise | Ariadne | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ariadne=Topic | ||||
| 3 | grasp | gerund | the Minotaur's noise not said here | the hand of Theseus | closely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | press | gerund | the Minotaur's noise not said here | one of noise's own hands | to noise's heart | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | past | noise's heart | a tremble | all property | 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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