Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 10
Your father will never be able to leave his kingdom for the sake of seeing his little boy."
Who acts: father, sake · What happens: not be, leave, see · To what, where: kingdom, little boy
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, sake), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 able | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 able | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 leave | mark |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sake | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sake | det |
| 13 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obl |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 seeing | mark |
| 15 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 sake | acl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 boy | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boy | amod |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seeing | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | Your father | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | Your father not said here | son's kingdom | for the sake | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme for sake=Recipient | |||
| 3 | see | gerund | the sake not said here | son's little boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=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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