Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 70

A mere lad, like Theseus, is not fit to be trusted on such a perilous journey, all by himself.

Who acts: mere lad, Theseus · What happens: not be, trust · To what, where: perilous journey

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 (mere lad, Theseus), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lad	det
2	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lad	amod
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fit	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Theseus	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 Theseus	case
6	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lad	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lad	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fit	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 fit	advmod
10	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	13 trusted	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 trusted	aux:pass
13	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 fit	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 journey	case
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 journey	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 journey	det
17	perilous	perilous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 journey	amod
18	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trusted	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 himself	punct
20	all	all	ADV	_	22 himself	advmod
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 himself	case
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 trusted	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	a mere lad					fit property	tree rules
2	trust	to-infinitive · passive	Theseus			such perilous journey			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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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