Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 58

But it is only a month since I grew strong enough to lift the heavy stone, and take the sword and sandals from beneath it, and come to Athens to seek my father."

Who acts: name, I · What happens: be, grow, lift, take, come, seek · To what, where: month, heavy stone, sword, name, Athens, father

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 (name, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 grew	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 month	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 month	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 month	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 month	det
6	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 But	parataxis
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 grew	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 grew	nsubj
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grew	xcomp
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	10 strong	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 lift	mark
13	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 strong	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stone	det
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stone	amod
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lift	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 take	cc
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 grew	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sword	det
21	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sandals	cc
23	sandals	sandal	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sword	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 it	case
25	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 take	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 come	cc
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 take	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 Athens	case
31	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 come	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 seek	mark
33	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 come	advcl
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 father	nmod:poss
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seek	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 grew	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	name	a month			tree rules
2	grow	past	I			strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lift	to-infinitive	I not said here	the heavy stone			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
4	take	infinitive	I not said here	the sword and sandals	name		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme from it=Initial_Location
5	come	infinitive	I not said here		Athens		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to athens=Initial_Location
6	seek	to-infinitive	I not said here	my father			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme

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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