Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 86
It is the day when we annually draw lots to see which of the youths and maids of Athens shall go to be devoured by the horrible Minotaur!"
Who acts: matter, we, Athens, horrible Minotaur · What happens: be, draw, see, go, devour · To what, where: day, lots, youths, maids
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 (matter, we, Athens, horrible Minotaur), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 day | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 day | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 draw | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 draw | nsubj |
| 7 | annually | annually | ADV | _ | 8 draw | advmod |
| 8 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 day | acl:relcl |
| 9 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 draw | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 draw | advcl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 youths | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 youths | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 youths | det |
| 15 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 see | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 maids | cc |
| 17 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 youths | conj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 19 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 go | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 maids | acl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 devoured | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 devoured | aux:pass |
| 24 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 go | advcl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 Minotaur | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Minotaur | det |
| 27 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Minotaur | amod |
| 28 | Minotaur | minotaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 devoured | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | matter | the day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | draw | present | we | lots | annually property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | we not said here | the youths and maids | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go | shall | Athens | maids not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maid=Theme | ||||
| 5 | devour | to-infinitive · passive | the horrible Minotaur | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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