Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 41

In order to strengthen his purpose, and fearing lest the whole of the precious poison should be wasted, one of his nephews now whispered to him:

Who acts: fearing, nephews, Theseus · What happens: strengthen, fear, waste, whisper, purpose · To what, where: purpose, Theseus

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 (fearing, nephews, 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	In	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 strengthen	mark
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 In	fixed
3	to	to	PART	_	4 strengthen	mark
4	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 purpose	nmod:poss
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strengthen	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wasted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wasted	cc
9	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 wasted	csubj
10	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	12 whole	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 whole	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fearing	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 poison	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 poison	det
15	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 poison	amod
16	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whole	obl
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 wasted	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 wasted	aux:pass
19	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 strengthen	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 one	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 wasted	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 nephews	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 nephews	nmod:poss
24	nephews	nephew	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 one	nmod
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 whispered	advmod
26	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 nephews	acl:relcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 whispered	obl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 strengthen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	strengthen	to-infinitive		Theseus's purpose				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent purpose=Patient
2	fear	gerund					whole property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	waste	should · passive	fearing					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»
4	whisper speech: assert	past	Theseus's nephews not said here		Theseus	now		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	purpose		Theseus					nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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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