Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 93

But King Minos, who reigned over Crete, laid out a vast deal of money in building a habitation for the Minotaur, and took great care of his health and comfort, merely for mischief's sake.

Who acts: King, health · What happens: reign, lay out, build, take, deal, care · To what, where: vast deal, Crete, habitation, great care, money

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 (King, health), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 reigned	cc
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reigned	nsubj
3	Minos	Minos	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reigned	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 reigned	nsubj
6	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 Crete	case
8	Crete	Crete	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reigned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laid	punct
10	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 Crete	acl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 laid	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 deal	det
13	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 deal	amod
14	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reigned	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 money	case
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 deal	nmod
17	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 building	mark
18	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 reigned	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 habitation	det
20	habitation	habitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 building	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 Minotaur	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Minotaur	det
23	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 building	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 took	cc
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reigned	conj
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 care	amod
28	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 health	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 health	nmod:poss
31	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 care	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 comfort	cc
33	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 health	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sake	punct
35	merely	merely	ADV	_	39 sake	advmod
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 sake	case
37	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sake	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 mischief	case
39	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reigned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reign	past	King	a vast deal of money	Crete		tree rules
2	lay out	participle		Crete not said here			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	build	gerund	King not said here	a habitation		for the Minotaur	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent habitation=Product for minotaur=Beneficiary
4	take	past	King not said here	great care of king's health and comfort		for mischief's sake	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent care=Theme for sake=Beneficiary
5	deal			money			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient
6	care		king's health and comfort				nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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