Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 76

All this was so true, and so maiden-like, and was spoken with so sweet a dignity, that Theseus would have blushed to urge her any longer.

Who acts: this, Theseus · What happens: be, speak, blush, urge · To what, where: dignity · 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 (this, 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 this	det:predet
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 true	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 true	advmod
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 like	cc
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 like	advmod
9	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 like	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 maiden	punct
11	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 true	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spoken	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 spoken	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 spoken	aux:pass
15	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 true	parataxis
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 sweet	case
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 sweet	advmod
18	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spoken	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dignity	det
20	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sweet	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 blushed	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 blushed	mark
23	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 blushed	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 blushed	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 blushed	aux
26	blushed	blush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 spoken	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 urge	mark
28	urge	urge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 blushed	advcl
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 urge	obj
30	any	any	ADV	_	31 longer	advmod
31	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 urge	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	this		true property	tree rules
2	be		this not said here			tree rules
3	speak speech: other	past · passive				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»
4	blush	would · perfect	Theseus			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	urge	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here	dignity	long property	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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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