Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 7

Do but let me put a single drop into the goblet, and let the young man taste it; and I will answer for it, he shall quite lay aside the bad designs with which he comes hither."

Who acts: you, me, young man, I, man · What happens: let, put, taste, answer, lay, come · To what, where: me, single drop, goblet, young man, drop

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, me, young man, 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 let	cc
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drop	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 drop	amod
8	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 goblet	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 goblet	det
11	goblet	goblet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	obj
18	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taste	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 answer	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 answer	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 answer	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 answer	aux
24	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	parataxis
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 answer	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lay	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 lay	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 lay	aux
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 lay	advmod
31	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 answer	conj
32	aside	aside	ADP	_	35 designs	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 designs	det
34	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 designs	amod
35	designs	design	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 lay	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 comes	obl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 comes	nsubj
39	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 designs	acl:relcl
40	hither	hither	ADV	_	39 comes	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	imperative · do-support	you not said here	me			tree rules
2	put	infinitive	me not said here	a single drop	the goblet		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent drop=Goal
3	let	infinitive	you not said here	the young man			tree rules
4	taste	infinitive	the young man not said here	drop			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
5	answer speech: assert	future	I			for drop	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	lay	shall	man			aside the bad designs	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	come	present	man			with the bad designs; hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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