Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 9
So the young man took the end of the silken string in his left hand, and his gold-hilted sword, ready drawn from its scabbard, in the other, and trod boldly into the inscrutable labyrinth.
Who acts: young man · What happens: take, hilt, draw, tread · To what, where: end, left hand, hilted sword, inscrutable labyrinth
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 (young man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 string | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 string | det |
| 10 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 string | amod |
| 11 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hand | amod |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sword | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sword | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sword | nmod:poss |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hilted | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 gold | punct |
| 21 | hilted | hilt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 sword | amod |
| 22 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ready | punct |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sword | amod |
| 25 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 sword | acl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 scabbard | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 scabbard | nmod:poss |
| 28 | scabbard | scabbard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drawn | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 other | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 other | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 other | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 drawn | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 trod | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 trod | cc |
| 35 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 36 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 trod | advmod |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 labyrinth | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 labyrinth | det |
| 39 | inscrutable | inscrutable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 labyrinth | amod |
| 40 | labyrinth | labyrinth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 trod | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the young man | the end of the silken string | man's left hand | man's hilted sword obl | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent end=Value in hand=Location | ||
| 2 | hilt | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | draw | participle | man's hilted sword not said here | from end's scabbard | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from scabbard=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | tread | past | the young man not said here | the inscrutable labyrinth | boldly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into labyrinth=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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