Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 64

When he went to be king of Athens, he bade me treat you as a child until you should prove yourself a man by lifting this heavy stone.

Who acts: sword, you · What happens: go, be, bade, treat, prove, lift · To what, where: king, me, you, yourself, heavy stone

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 (sword, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bade	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	6 king	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 king	cop
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Athens	case
8	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 king	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bade	nsubj
11	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 treat	obl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 bade	obj
13	treat	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 treat	obj
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 child	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 child	det
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 treat	obl
18	until	until	SCONJ	_	21 prove	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 prove	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 prove	aux
21	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 treat	advcl
22	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 prove	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prove	obj
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 lifting	mark
26	lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 prove	advcl
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 stone	det
28	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 stone	amod
29	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lifting	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 treat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	sword			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		king	of Athens	tree rules
3	bade		sword	me		tree rules
4	treat	present		you	as a child	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Theme as child=Attribute
5	prove	should	you	yourself		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme man=Attribute
6	lift	gerund	you not said here	this heavy stone		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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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