Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 79

Thus, however weary a man might be, he never liked to lie in the bed of Procrustes.

Who acts: you, man · What happens: weary, be, not like, lie · To what, where: bed

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, man), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 weary	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	4 weary	advmod
4	weary	weary	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 be	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 be	aux
8	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 weary	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 liked	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 liked	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 liked	advmod
12	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weary	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 lie	mark
14	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 liked	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 bed	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bed	det
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lie	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Procrustes	case
19	Procrustes	Procrustes	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 bed	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 weary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	weary	imperative	you not said here		however, thus property	tree rules
2	be	might	a man			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not like	past	man			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	lie not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	the bed of Procrustes		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location

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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