Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 101
You are a royal prince, and have a right to hold yourself above the destinies of common men."
Who acts: You · What happens: be, have, hold · To what, where: royal prince, right, yourself, destinies
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 prince | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 prince | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 4 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prince | amod |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 have | cc |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 prince | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 right | det |
| 10 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hold | mark |
| 12 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 right | acl |
| 13 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 hold | obj |
| 14 | above | above | ADP | _ | 16 destinies | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 destinies | det |
| 16 | destinies | destiny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hold | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 18 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 men | amod |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 destinies | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prince | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 prince | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | a royal prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | infinitive | a right | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | |||||
| 3 | hold | to-infinitive | yourself | the destinies of common men | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme above destiny=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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