Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 42

Aethra had once more told him the oft-repeated story of his father, and how gladly he would receive Theseus at his stately palace, and how he would present him to his courtiers and the people, and tell them that here was the heir of his dominions.

Who acts: Aethra, son · What happens: have, tell, repeat, receive, present, be · To what, where: oft repeated story, son, Theseus, stately palace, courtiers, people · 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 (Aethra, son), 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	Aethra	Aethra	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 told	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 told	advmod
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 story	det
8	oft	oft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 story	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 oft	punct
10	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 story	amod
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 father	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 story	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 receive	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 receive	cc
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 gladly	advmod
18	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	21 receive	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 receive	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 receive	aux
21	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
22	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 receive	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 palace	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 palace	nmod:poss
25	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 palace	amod
26	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 receive	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 present	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 present	cc
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 present	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 present	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 present	aux
32	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 present	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 courtiers	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 courtiers	nmod:poss
36	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 present	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 people	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 people	det
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 courtiers	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 tell	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 tell	cc
42	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 tell	iobj
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 heir	mark
45	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 heir	advmod
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 heir	cop
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 heir	det
48	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 tell	ccomp
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 dominions	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 dominions	nmod:poss
51	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 heir	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Aethra					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	Aethra not said here	the oft repeated story of son's father	son		once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
3	repeat	participle						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	receive	would	son	Theseus		son's stately palace	gladly property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent theseus=Theme at palace=Location
5	present	would	son	Theseus	son's courtiers and the people			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to courtier=Recipient
6	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Aethra not said here		people			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
7	is a	past		the heir		here	of son's dominions	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/42/