Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 71

But King Aegeus told them that they were welcome to the whole, and to twice as many more, if he had them, for the sake of his delight at finding his son, and losing the wicked Medea.

Who acts: King, sake · What happens: tell, welcome, have, find, lose, delight · To what, where: people, son, wicked Medea · 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 (King, sake), 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	_	4 told	cc
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
3	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	flat
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 welcome	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 welcome	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 welcome	aux:pass
9	welcome	welcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 whole	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 whole	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 welcome	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 more	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 more	cc
15	to	too	ADV	Typo=Yes	16 twice	advmod
16	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 many	advmod
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 many	advmod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 more	amod
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 told	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sake	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 sake	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sake	det
28	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 delight	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 delight	nmod:poss
31	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sake	nmod
32	at	at	SCONJ	_	33 finding	mark
33	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 sake	acl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 son	nmod:poss
35	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 finding	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 losing	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 losing	cc
38	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Medea	det
40	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Medea	amod
41	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 losing	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	King		people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	welcome	past · passive		people		to the whole	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past	king	people			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	find	gerund	the sake of king's delight not said here	king's son			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Topic
5	lose	gerund	King not said here	the wicked Medea			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medea=Eventuality
6	delight		king				nom delight «feeling 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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