Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 9
And King Aegeus, like most other kings, thought any punishment mild enough for a person who was accused of plotting against his life.
What happens: think, accuse, plot · To what, where: King, person
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Aegeus | Aegeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kings | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 kings | case |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 kings | amod |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kings | amod |
| 8 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 King | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 punishment | det |
| 12 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obj |
| 13 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 punishment | amod |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 13 mild | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 person | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 person | det |
| 17 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mild | obl |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 accused | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 accused | aux:pass |
| 20 | accused | accuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 person | acl:relcl |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 plotting | mark |
| 22 | plotting | plot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 accused | advcl |
| 23 | against | against | ADP | _ | 25 life | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 life | nmod:poss |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 plotting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | participle · passive | King and most other kings | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme punishment=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | accuse | past · passive | a person | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | plot | gerund | against king's life | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: 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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