Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 95

No peace could they obtain, however, except on condition that they should send seven young men and seven maidens, every year, to be devoured by the pet monster of the cruel King Minos.

Who acts: peace, Athenians, pet monster · What happens: obtain, send, devour · To what, where: seven young men

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 (peace, Athenians, pet monster), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 peace	det
2	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 obtain	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 obtain	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 obtain	nsubj
5	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 however	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	5 obtain	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 condition	punct
9	except	except	ADP	_	11 condition	case
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 condition	case
11	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 obtain	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 send	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 send	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 send	aux
15	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 condition	acl
16	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 men	nummod
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 men	amod
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 send	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 maidens	cc
20	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 maidens	nummod
21	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 men	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 year	punct
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 year	det
24	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 condition	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 devoured	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	28 devoured	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 devoured	aux:pass
28	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 condition	conj
29	by	by	ADP	_	32 monster	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 monster	det
31	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 monster	compound
32	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 devoured	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 Minos	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Minos	det
35	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Minos	amod
36	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Minos	compound
37	Minos	mino	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 monster	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 obtain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	obtain	could	no peace		except condition; however property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	send	should	Athenians = athenian	seven young men and seven maidens		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	devour	to-infinitive · passive	the pet monster of the cruel King Minos			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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