Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 108

If there were time to spare from more important matters, I should be glad to tell you of Medea's fiery chariot, drawn by winged dragons, in which the enchantress used often to take an airing among the clouds.

Who acts: time, I · What happens: be, spare, tell, draw, wing, use · To what, where: more important matters, you, enchantress, fiery chariot, airing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (time, I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 were	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 glad	advcl
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 were	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 spare	mark
6	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 time	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 matters	case
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 matters	amod
9	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 matters	amod
10	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spare	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 glad	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 glad	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 glad	cop
15	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tell	mark
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 glad	xcomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 chariot	case
20	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 chariot	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Medea	case
22	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 chariot	amod
23	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 drawn	punct
25	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 chariot	acl
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 dragons	case
27	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 dragons	amod
28	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 drawn	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 enchantress	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 enchantress	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 enchantress	nsubj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 enchantress	det
33	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obl
34	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 enchantress	acl
35	often	often	ADV	_	34 used	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 take	mark
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 used	advcl
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 airing	det
39	airing	airing	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 take	obj
40	among	among	ADP	_	42 clouds	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 clouds	det
42	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 take	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be a condition, not said to happen	past	time			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spare	to-infinitive	time not said here			more important matters		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent
3	is	should	I				glad property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here		you	the enchantress	of Medea's fiery chariot	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	draw	participle		Medea's fiery chariot not said here			by winged dragons	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wing	participle						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
7	use	participle		the enchantress not said here			often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	take	to-infinitive		a airing			among the clouds	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent airing=Theme

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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