Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 76

His ambition was to perform other and more heroic deeds, which should be better worth telling in prose and verse.

Who acts: ambition, other deeds, Theseus · What happens: be, tell, ambition · To what, where: prose · 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 (ambition, other deeds, Theseus), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ambition	nmod:poss
2	ambition	ambition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 perform	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 perform	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 perform	mark
5	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 deeds	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 heroic	cc
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 heroic	advmod
9	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 other	conj
10	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 perform	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 better	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 better	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 better	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 better	cop
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 deeds	parataxis
16	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 better	conj
17	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 worth	ccomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 prose	case
19	prose	prose	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 telling	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 verse	cc
21	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 prose	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 perform	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Theseus's ambition		perform property	tree rules
2	is	should	other deeds		good property	tree rules
3	be		other deeds not said here			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	other deeds not said here	prose and verse		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ambition		Theseus			nom ambition «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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