Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 58
To make my story short, the poor captives were awakened, and, hardly knowing whether it was not a joyful dream, were told of what Theseus had done, and that they must set sail for Athens before daybreak.
Who acts: story, knowing, Theseus, captives · What happens: make, awaken, know, not be, tell, do · To what, where: story, poor captives, joyful dream, sail, daybreak · 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 (story, knowing, Theseus, captives), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 make | mark |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 story | nmod:poss |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 make | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 awakened | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 captives | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 captives | amod |
| 9 | captives | captive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 awakened | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 awakened | aux:pass |
| 11 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 make | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 told | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 told | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knowing | punct |
| 15 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 16 knowing | advmod |
| 16 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 told | csubj:pass |
| 17 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 23 dream | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dream | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dream | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 dream | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dream | det |
| 22 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dream | amod |
| 23 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knowing | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dream | punct |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 told | aux:pass |
| 26 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 awakened | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 what | case |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 told | obl |
| 29 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 done | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 done | aux |
| 31 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 what | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 set | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 set | cc |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 set | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 set | nsubj |
| 36 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 set | aux |
| 37 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 told | conj |
| 38 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 set | obj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 Athens | case |
| 40 | Athens | athen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 set | obl |
| 41 | before | before | ADP | _ | 42 daybreak | case |
| 42 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 set | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | my story | short property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product | ||||
| 2 | awaken | past · passive | the poor captives | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know | gerund | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not is a | past | story | a joyful dream | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | knowing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 6 | do | past · perfect | Theseus | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | set | must | captives = captive | sail | daybreak | for Athens | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sail=Theme before daybreak=Destination |
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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