Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 65
That task being accomplished, you are to put on his sandals, in order to follow in your father's footsteps, and to gird on his sword, so that you may fight giants and dragons, as King Aegeus did in his youth."
Who acts: you, King · What happens: accomplish, be, follow, gird, fight, do · To what, where: task, sandals, footsteps, sword, giants, youth
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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 task | det |
| 2 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accomplished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 accomplished | aux:pass |
| 4 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 put | mark |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 accomplished | parataxis |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 sandals | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sandals | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 follow | punct |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 follow | mark |
| 15 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 in | fixed |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 follow | mark |
| 17 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 put | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 footsteps | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 footsteps | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 father | case |
| 22 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 follow | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gird | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 gird | cc |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 gird | mark |
| 26 | gird | gird | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 follow | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 sword | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sword | nmod:poss |
| 29 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gird | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fight | punct |
| 31 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 35 fight | mark |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 so | fixed |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 fight | nsubj |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 fight | aux |
| 35 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 gird | conj |
| 36 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 fight | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 dragons | cc |
| 38 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 giants | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 did | punct |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 did | mark |
| 41 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 did | nsubj |
| 42 | Aegeus | Aegeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 King | flat |
| 43 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 fight | parataxis |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 youth | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 youth | nmod:poss |
| 46 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 did | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 accomplished | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 accomplished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accomplish | gerund · passive | that task | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | present | you | sword's sandals | put property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | you not said here | your father's footsteps | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in footstep=Location | ||||
| 4 | gird | to-infinitive | you not said here | sword's sword | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fight | may | you | giants and dragons | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | do | past | King | sword's youth | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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