Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 110

But these and many other wonders must be left untold; and it is enough to say, that Medea, amongst a thousand other bad things, knew how to prepare a poison, that was instantly fatal to whomsoever might so much as touch it with his lips.

Who acts: chariot, Medea, that, these · What happens: leave, be, say, know, prepare, touch · To what, where: many other wonders, poison, chariot · 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 (chariot, Medea, that, these), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	46 touch	cc
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	46 touch	nsubj:outer
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 left	cc
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wonders	amod
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wonders	amod
6	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 left	nsubj:pass
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 left	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 left	aux:pass
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 these	conj
10	untold	untold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 left	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 enough	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 enough	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 enough	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 enough	cop
15	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 left	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 say	mark
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 enough	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 knew	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 knew	mark
20	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 knew	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 things	punct
22	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	27 things	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 thousand	det
24	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 things	nummod
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 things	amod
26	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 things	amod
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 Medea	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Medea	punct
29	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 say	ccomp
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 prepare	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 prepare	mark
32	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 knew	xcomp
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 poison	det
34	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 prepare	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 fatal	punct
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 fatal	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 fatal	cop
38	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	39 fatal	advmod
39	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 knew	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 whomsoever	case
41	whomsoever	whomsoever	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fatal	obl
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 touch	aux
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 much	advmod
44	much	much	ADV	_	46 touch	advmod
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 touch	mark
46	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 touch	obj
48	with	with	ADP	_	50 lips	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 lips	nmod:poss
50	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 touch	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 touch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	must · passive		many other wonders	untold property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	present	chariot		enough property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	chariot not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	know	past	Medea and thousand other bad things			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	prepare	to-infinitive	Medea and thousand other bad things not said here	a poison		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient
6	is	past	that		to whomsoever; fatal, instantly property	tree rules
7	touch	might	these	chariot	with wonder's lips	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with lip=Instrument

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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