Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 38

None is more worthy to quaff it than yourself!"

Who acts: None · What happens: be, quaff · To what, where: favor

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 (None), 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	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 worthy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worthy	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 worthy	advmod
4	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 quaff	mark
6	quaff	quaff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 worthy	csubj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quaff	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 yourself	case
9	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 quaff	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 worthy	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 worthy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	None					worthy property	tree rules
2	quaff	to-infinitive		favor				than yourself	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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