Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 81

He was in the habit of flinging his victims off a high cliff into the sea; and, in order to give him exactly his deserts, Theseus tossed him off the very same place.

Who acts: Scinis, habit, Theseus · What happens: be, fling, give, toss · To what, where: habit, victims, sea, deserts, Scinis, same place

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 (Scinis, habit, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 habit	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 habit	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 habit	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 habit	det
5	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 flinging	mark
7	flinging	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 habit	acl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 victims	nmod:poss
9	victims	victim	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flinging	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	13 cliff	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cliff	det
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cliff	amod
13	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flinging	obl
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flinging	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 order	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 order	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 order	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 order	case
21	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 habit	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 order	acl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	27 deserts	advmod
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 deserts	nmod:poss
27	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 give	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tossed	punct
29	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 tossed	nsubj
30	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 habit	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tossed	obj
32	off	off	ADP	_	36 place	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 place	det
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 same	advmod
35	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 place	amod
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tossed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 habit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Scinis			the habit and order		tree rules
2	fling	gerund	the habit and order not said here	Scinis's victims		the sea	off a high cliff	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent victim=Theme off cliff=Initial_Location into sea=Destination
3	give	to-infinitive	Scinis not said here	Scinis's deserts	Scinis			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	toss	past	Theseus	Scinis		the same place		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme off place=Initial_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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