Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 17

When a son takes a father into his warm heart it renews the old man's youth in a better way than by the heat of Medea's magic caldron.

Who acts: son, aspect, magic caldron · What happens: take, renew, heat · To what, where: father, warm heart, youth, better way

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 (son, aspect, magic caldron), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 takes	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 son	det
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	nsubj
4	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 renews	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 father	det
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 heart	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heart	nmod:poss
9	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heart	amod
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	obl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 renews	nsubj
12	renews	renew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 youth	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 man	case
17	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 renews	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 way	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 way	det
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 renews	obl
22	than	than	ADP	_	25 heat	case
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 heat	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 heat	det
25	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 way	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 caldron	case
27	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 caldron	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 Medea	case
29	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 caldron	amod
30	caldron	caldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heat	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 renews	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	present	a son	a father	son's warm heart	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent father=Theme into heart=Destination
2	renew	present	aspect	the old man's youth	a better way than the heat of Medea's magic caldron	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent youth=Patient
3	heat		Medea's magic caldron			nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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