Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 45
Quick!--let him taste the wine; or perhaps he may do the deed even yet."
Who acts: you, stranger · What happens: let, taste, do · To what, where: stranger, wine, deed
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, stranger), 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 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 let | advcl |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quick | punct |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wine | det |
| 8 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taste | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 do | cc |
| 11 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 14 do | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 deed | det |
| 16 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obj |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 yet | advmod |
| 18 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 do | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | stranger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | taste | infinitive | stranger not said here | the wine | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme wine=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | do | may | stranger | the deed | yet | perhaps property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |
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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