Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 33
He made up his mind, therefore, to let Theseus drink off the poisoned wine.
Who acts: king, Theseus · What happens: make up, let, drink off, poison, mind · To what, where: mind, Theseus, poisoned wine
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, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 made | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mind | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 7 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 10 let | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 let | mark |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | advcl |
| 11 | Theseus | theseus | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 drink | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wine | det |
| 15 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 wine | amod |
| 16 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drink | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | king | king's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | king not said here | Theseus | therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | drink off | infinitive | Theseus not said here | the poisoned wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||||
| 4 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | mind | king | nom mind «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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