Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 92
This was melancholy news for Prince Theseus, who, when he stepped ashore, found himself king of all the country, whether he would or no; and such a turn of fortune was enough to make any young man feel very much out of spirits.
Who acts: This, melancholy news, turn, young man · What happens: be, step, find, make, feel · To what, where: melancholy news, King, young man
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, melancholy news, turn, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 news | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 news | cop |
| 3 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 news | compound |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Theseus | case |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Theseus | compound |
| 7 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 news | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stepped | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 stepped | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stepped | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 stepped | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stepped | nsubj |
| 13 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 news | parataxis |
| 14 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 13 stepped | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stepped | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 found | obj |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 country | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 country | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 country | det |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 king | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 would | punct |
| 24 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 26 would | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 would | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | ccomp |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 no | cc |
| 28 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 would | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 enough | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 enough | cc |
| 31 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 turn | det:predet |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 turn | det |
| 33 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 enough | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 fortune | case |
| 35 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turn | nmod |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 enough | cop |
| 37 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stepped | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 make | mark |
| 39 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 enough | advcl |
| 40 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 man | det |
| 41 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 man | amod |
| 42 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 make | obj |
| 43 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 make | xcomp |
| 44 | very | very | ADV | _ | 45 much | advmod |
| 45 | much | much | ADV | _ | 43 feel | advmod |
| 46 | out | out | ADP | _ | 48 spirits | case |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 spirits | case |
| 48 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 much | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 news | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | melancholy news | for Prince Theseus | tree rules | |||
| 2 | step | past | melancholy news | ashore property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | melancholy news not said here | King | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme king=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is | past | such turn of fortune | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | such turn of fortune not said here | any young man | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | feel | infinitive | any young man not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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