Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 98

They proposed to him that he should come into the king's presence as a stranger, in order to try whether Aegeus would discover in the young man's features any likeness either to himself or his mother Aethra, and thus recognize him for a son.

Who acts: nephews, Theseus, Aegeus, young man · What happens: propose, come, try, discover, recognize, feature · To what, where: Theseus, presence, likeness, features

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 (nephews, Theseus, Aegeus, young 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proposed	nsubj
2	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proposed	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 come	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 proposed	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	13 presence	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 presence	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 king	case
13	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 stranger	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stranger	det
16	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 try	punct
18	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 try	mark
19	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 in	fixed
20	to	to	PART	_	21 try	mark
21	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 proposed	parataxis
22	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	25 discover	mark
23	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 discover	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 discover	aux
25	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 try	xcomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	31 features	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
28	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 man	amod
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 features	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 man	case
31	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 discover	obl
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 likeness	det
33	likeness	likeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 discover	obj
34	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 himself	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 himself	case
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 discover	obl
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 mother	cc
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 mother	nmod:poss
39	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 himself	conj
40	Aethra	Aethra	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 mother	appos
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 recognize	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 recognize	cc
43	thus	thus	ADV	_	44 recognize	advmod
44	recognize	recognize	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 try	conj
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 recognize	obj
46	for	for	ADP	_	48 son	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 son	det
48	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 recognize	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 proposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	propose	past	nephews = nephew		Theseus			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	come	should	Theseus			the king's presence	as a stranger	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into presence=Initial_Location
3	try	to-infinitive						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	discover not said to happen	would	Aegeus	any likeness	Theseus	the young man's features		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent likeness=Topic
5	recognize	infinitive		Theseus			for a son; thus property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	feature		the young man					nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=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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