Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 77
Nothing remained for him, therefore, but to bid Ariadne an affectionate farewell, and to go on board the vessel, and set sail.
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: remain, bid, go, set · To what, where: affectionate farewell, Ariadne, vessel, sail
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 (Nothing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:418): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remained | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 therefore | punct |
| 6 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 remained | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bid | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 bid | cc |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 bid | mark |
| 10 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 remained | conj |
| 11 | Ariadne | Ariadne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bid | iobj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 farewell | det |
| 13 | affectionate | affectionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 farewell | amod |
| 14 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bid | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 go | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bid | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 vessel | case |
| 20 | board | board | ADP | _ | 19 on | fixed |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 vessel | det |
| 22 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 set | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 set | cc |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bid | conj |
| 26 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Nothing | for Theseus; therefore property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bid | to-infinitive | Nothing not said here | a affectionate farewell | Ariadne | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Nothing not said here | the vessel | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on vessel=Location | ||||
| 4 | set | infinitive | Nothing not said here | sail | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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