Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 95
A still more dangerous enemy was Medea, the wicked enchantress; for she was now the king's wife, and wanted to give the kingdom to her son Medus, instead of letting it be given to the son of Aethra, whom she hated.
Who acts: dangerous enemy, Medea · What happens: be, want, give, let, hate · To what, where: wicked enchantress, kingdom, son, enemy
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 (dangerous enemy, Medea), 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 | 5 enemy | det |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 dangerous | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 dangerous | advmod |
| 4 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 enemy | amod |
| 5 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enchantress | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 enchantress | cop |
| 7 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 enchantress | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 enchantress | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 enchantress | det |
| 10 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 enchantress | amod |
| 11 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 wife | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 wife | case |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wife | cop |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 wife | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 king | case |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enchantress | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wanted | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wanted | cc |
| 23 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wife | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 give | mark |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wanted | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 kingdom | det |
| 27 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 son | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 son | nmod:poss |
| 30 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obl |
| 31 | Medus | Medus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 son | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 letting | punct |
| 33 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 35 letting | mark |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 instead | fixed |
| 35 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 give | advcl |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 given | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 given | aux:pass |
| 38 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 letting | xcomp |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 son | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 son | det |
| 41 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 given | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Aethra | case |
| 43 | Aethra | Aethra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 son | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 hated | punct |
| 45 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 hated | obj |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 hated | nsubj |
| 47 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 son | acl:relcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 enchantress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a dangerous enemy | the wicked enchantress | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Medea | now | for the king's wife | tree rules | |||
| 3 | want | past | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | the kingdom | Medea's son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme to son=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | let | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | give | infinitive · passive | enemy | the son of Aethra | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to son=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | hate | past | Medea | the son of Aethra | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
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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