Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 40

Now King Pelias meant cunningly to entrap the young man, and to make him say something that should be the cause of mischief and distraction to himself.

Who acts: King, man, that · What happens: mean, entrap, make, say, be · To what, where: young man, man, something, cause · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, man, that), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 meant	advmod
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 meant	nsubj
3	Pelias	Pelias	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	flat
4	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cunningly	cunningly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meant	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 entrap	mark
7	entrap	entrap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cunningly	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entrap	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 make	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 make	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 meant	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 make	obj
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 make	xcomp
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 say	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 cause	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 cause	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 cause	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cause	det
22	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 something	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 mischief	case
24	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cause	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 distraction	cc
26	distraction	distraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cause	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 himself	case
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 distraction	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	King		now	cunningly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	entrap	to-infinitive	King not said here	the young man			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3	make	to-infinitive	King not said here	man			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	man not said here	something			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
5	is a	should	that	the cause and distraction to king		of mischief	tree rules

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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