Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 22
And therefore, unless he could have laid his full, over-brimming heart into the king's hand, poor Theseus knew not what to do or say.
Who acts: Theseus, poor Theseus · What happens: lay, over-brimm, not know, do, say · To what, where: heart, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Theseus, poor Theseus), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 laid | cc |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 8 laid | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 therefore | punct |
| 4 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 8 laid | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 laid | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 laid | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 laid | aux |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 full | nmod:poss |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 laid | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 over-brimming | punct |
| 12 | over-brimming | over-brimm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 laid | advcl |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 over-brimming | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 over-brimming | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knew | punct |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Theseus | amod |
| 21 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 knew | nsubj |
| 22 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hand | acl:relcl |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 knew | advmod |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 do | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 knew | ccomp |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 say | cc |
| 28 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 do | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | could · perfect | Theseus | full, therefore property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | over-brimm | gerund | Theseus not said here | heart | the king's hand | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not know | past | poor Theseus | the king's hand not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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