Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 75

I cannot stop to tell you hardly any of the adventures that befell Theseus on the road to Athens.

Who acts: I, adventures · What happens: not stop, tell, befall · To what, where: any, you, Theseus, road · 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 (I, adventures), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 stop	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stop	advmod
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stop	xcomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	9 any	advmod
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 tell	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 adventures	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 adventures	det
12	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 any	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 befell	nsubj
14	befell	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 adventures	acl:relcl
15	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 befell	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 road	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 road	det
18	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 befell	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Athens	case
20	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 road	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not stop	can	I				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	any	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient any=Topic
3	befall	past	the adventures	Theseus		the road to Athens	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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