Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 89
Is it not possible, at the risk of one's life, to slay him?"
Who acts: kind · What happens: not be, slay, risk · To what, where: risk, hand, life
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 (kind), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 possible | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 possible | advmod |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 risk | punct |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 risk | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 risk | det |
| 8 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 possible | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 10 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 one | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 risk | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slay | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 slay | mark |
| 15 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 slay | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | kind | the risk of one's life | possible property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | slay | to-infinitive | hand | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 3 | risk | one's life | nom risk «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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