Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 14
You are not yet big and strong enough to set out on such an errand."
Who acts: You · What happens: not be, be, set out · To what, where: errand
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 big | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 big | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 big | advmod |
| 4 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 big | advmod |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 strong | cc |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 big | conj |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 strong | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 set | mark |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 strong | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 errand | case |
| 13 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 errand | det:predet |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 errand | det |
| 15 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | You | yet | big property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | You not said here | enough property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | set out | to-infinitive | You not said here | such errand | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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