Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 52

And Theseus, as he leaned on his sword, taking breath, felt another twitch of the silken cord; for all through the terrible encounter, he had held it fast in his left hand.

Who acts: Theseus · What happens: learn, take, feel, hold, twitch · To what, where: sword, breath, twitch, left hand, silken cord

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 leaned	cc
2	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 leaned	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 leaned	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 leaned	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 leaned	nsubj
6	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 sword	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sword	nmod:poss
9	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 taking	punct
11	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 leaned	advcl
12	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taking	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 felt	punct
14	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 leaned	conj
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 twitch	det
16	twitch	twitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 felt	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 cord	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cord	det
19	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cord	amod
20	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 twitch	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 encounter	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	ADV	_	27 encounter	obl
24	through	through	ADP	_	27 encounter	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 encounter	det
26	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 encounter	amod
27	encounter	encounter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 felt	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 held	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 held	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 held	aux
31	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 encounter	acl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 held	obj
33	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 held	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 hand	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 hand	nmod:poss
36	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 hand	amod
37	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 held	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 leaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	past	Theseus		Theseus's sword		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	gerund	Theseus not said here	breath			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
3	feel	past	Theseus not said here	another twitch of the silken cord			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twitch=Theme
4	hold	past · perfect	Theseus	twitch	Theseus's left hand	fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location
5	twitch			the silken cord			nom twitch «state transitive»: of=patient

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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