Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 60

See what King Aegeus, your royal father, left for you beneath the stone, when he lifted it in his mighty arms, and laid it on the spot whence you have now removed it."

Who acts: you, King · What happens: see, leave, lift, lay, remove · To what, where: royal father, stone, mighty arms, spot, you

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, King), 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	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 See	obj
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 King	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 father	punct
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
7	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 father	amod
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 King	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 left	punct
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 father	acl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 left	obl
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	15 stone	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stone	det
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lifted	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 lifted	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lifted	nsubj
19	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 See	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lifted	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 arms	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 arms	nmod:poss
23	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 arms	amod
24	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lifted	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 laid	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 laid	cc
27	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lifted	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 laid	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 spot	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 spot	det
31	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 laid	obl
32	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	36 removed	advmod
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 removed	nsubj:pass
34	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 removed	aux
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 removed	advmod
36	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 laid	advcl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 removed	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	leave	participle		your royal father not said here	the stone		for you	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath stone=Location
3	lift	past	King	stone	King's mighty arms			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in arm=Destination
4	lay	past	King not said here	stone	the spot			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on spot=Destination
5	remove	present · perfect · passive		you		now	whence property	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.

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