Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 28

Often and often, after this, did Theseus ask his mother whether it was yet time for him to go to Athens; and still his mother pointed to the rock, and told him that, for years to come, he could not be strong enough to move it.

Who acts: Theseus, permission, mother · What happens: ask, be, go, point, tell, come · To what, where: mother, time, Athens, rock, that, Theseus · 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 (Theseus, permission, mother), 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	Often	often	ADV	_	10 ask	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 often	cc
3	often	often	ADV	_	1 Often	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Often	punct
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Often	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Often	punct
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ask	aux
9	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 ask	nsubj
10	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ask	obj
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	17 time	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 time	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 time	cop
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	17 time	cc
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ask	obl:unmarked
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 go	mark
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 time	acl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Athens	case
23	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 pointed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pointed	cc
26	still	still	ADV	_	29 pointed	advmod
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mother	nmod:poss
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pointed	nsubj
29	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ask	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 rock	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rock	det
32	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pointed	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 told	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 told	cc
35	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pointed	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 told	iobj
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 told	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 years	punct
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 years	case
40	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 told	obl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 come	mark
42	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 years	acl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 strong	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 strong	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 strong	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 strong	advmod
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 strong	cop
48	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ask	parataxis
49	enough	enough	ADV	_	48 strong	advmod
50	to	to	PART	_	51 move	mark
51	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 strong	advcl
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 move	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · do-support	Theseus		Theseus's mother			often property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
2	is a	past	permission	time					tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	Theseus			Athens			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to athens=Initial_Location
4	point	past	Theseus's mother		the rock		still		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to rock=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	past	Theseus's mother not said here	that	Theseus		year		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic
6	come	to-infinitive	Theseus's mother not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not is	could	Theseus					enough, strong property	tree rules
8	move	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here	permission					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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