Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 10

He therefore made little or no objection to Medea's scheme, and as soon as the poisonous wine was ready, gave orders that the young stranger should be admitted into his presence.

Who acts: king, poisonous wine, Medea · What happens: make, be, give, admit, scheme · To what, where: orders, young stranger, presence

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, poisonous wine, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 objection	cc
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 objection	det
7	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 scheme	case
9	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 scheme	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Medea	case
11	scheme	scheme	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 objection	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gave	cc
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 soon	advmod
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 gave	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 ready	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wine	det
18	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wine	amod
19	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ready	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ready	cop
21	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 soon	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
24	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 gave	obj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 admitted	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stranger	det
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stranger	amod
28	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 admitted	nsubj:pass
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 admitted	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 admitted	aux:pass
31	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 gave	advcl
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 presence	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 presence	nmod:poss
34	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 admitted	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	king			little, therefore property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the poisonous wine			ready property	tree rules
3	give	past	king not said here	orders		soon property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
4	admit speech: other	should · passive		the young stranger	king's presence		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	scheme		Medea				nom scheme «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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