Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 3
Only admit this evil-minded young man to your presence, treat him civilly, and invite him to drink a goblet of wine.
Who acts: you, man · What happens: admit, treat, invite, drink · To what, where: minded young man, presence, man, goblet
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, 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 admit | advmod |
| 2 | admit | admit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 man | det |
| 4 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 minded | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 evil | punct |
| 6 | minded | minded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 admit | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 presence | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 presence | nmod:poss |
| 11 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 admit | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 treat | punct |
| 13 | treat | treat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 admit | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 treat | obj |
| 15 | civilly | civilly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 treat | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 invite | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 invite | cc |
| 18 | invite | invite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 admit | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 invite | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 drink | mark |
| 21 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 invite | xcomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 goblet | det |
| 23 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drink | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wine | case |
| 25 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 goblet | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 admit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admit speech: other | imperative | you not said here | this minded young man | your presence | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Topic to presence=Recipient | |||
| 2 | treat | infinitive | you not said here | man | civilly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | invite | infinitive | you not said here | man | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | drink not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | a goblet of wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Patient |
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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