Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 93

However, he sent for his dear mother to Athens, and, by taking her advice in matters of state, became a very excellent monarch, and was greatly beloved by his people.

Who acts: King, people, state · What happens: send, take, become, belov, matter · To what, where: Athens, advice, matters, excellent monarch

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 (King, people, state), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 sent	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 mother	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
7	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mother	amod
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Athens	case
10	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 became	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 became	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 and	punct
14	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 taking	mark
15	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 became	advcl
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 advice	nmod:poss
17	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taking	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 matters	case
19	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 taking	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 state	case
21	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 matters	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taking	punct
23	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 monarch	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 excellent	advmod
26	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 monarch	amod
27	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 became	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 beloved	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 beloved	cc
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 beloved	aux:pass
31	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	32 beloved	advmod
32	beloved	belov	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 became	conj
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 people	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 people	nmod:poss
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 beloved	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	King		Athens		for King's dear mother; however property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to athens=Destination
2	take	gerund		Athens's advice		matters of state		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent advice=Value in matter=Location
3	become	past	King not said here	a excellent monarch				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	belov	past · passive	King's people				greatly property	tree rules
5	matter		state					nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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