Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 48

"Drink!" said he, in the stern tone with which he was wont to condemn a criminal to be beheaded. "

Who acts: man · What happens: say, be, condemn, behead · To what, where: criminal · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Drink	punct
2	Drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Drink	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Drink	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tone	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 tone	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tone	det
10	stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tone	amod
11	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 wont	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wont	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wont	cop
16	wont	wont	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tone	amod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 condemn	mark
18	condemn	condemn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wont	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 criminal	det
20	criminal	criminal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 condemn	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	23 beheaded	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 beheaded	aux:pass
23	beheaded	behead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 condemn	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 tone	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 tone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	man		with the stern tone; wont property	tree rules
3	condemn	to-infinitive	man not said here	a criminal		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent criminal=Theme
4	behead	to-infinitive · passive	man not said here			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»

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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