Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 75
Theseus, however, was much too brave and active a young man to be willing to spend all his time in relating things which had already happened.
Who acts: Theseus, relating things · What happens: be, spend, relate, happen · To what, where: relating things
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 (Theseus, relating things), 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 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 brave | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Theseus | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 brave | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brave | cop |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 brave | advmod |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 brave | advmod |
| 8 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 active | cc |
| 10 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brave | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brave | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 willing | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 willing | cop |
| 16 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 spend | mark |
| 18 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 willing | xcomp |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 time | det:predet |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 time | nmod:poss |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spend | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 things | case |
| 23 | relating | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 things | amod |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spend | obl |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 happened | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 happened | aux |
| 27 | already | already | ADV | _ | 28 happened | advmod |
| 28 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 things | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Theseus | brave, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Theseus not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Theseus not said here | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spend | to-infinitive | Theseus not said here | relating things | time | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | relate | gerund | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | happen | past · perfect | relating things | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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