Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 106

That Daedalus was a very cunning workman; but of all his artful contrivances, this labyrinth is the most wondrous.

Who acts: Daedalus, labyrinth · What happens: be · To what, where: cunning workman

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Daedalus, labyrinth), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Daedalus	det
2	Daedalus	Daedalus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 workman	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 workman	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 workman	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 cunning	advmod
6	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 workman	amod
7	workman	workman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 contrivances	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 contrivances	cc
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 contrivances	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 contrivances	det:predet
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 contrivances	nmod:poss
13	artful	artful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 contrivances	amod
14	contrivances	contrivance	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 workman	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wondrous	punct
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 labyrinth	det
17	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wondrous	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 wondrous	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wondrous	det
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 wondrous	advmod
21	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 contrivances	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 workman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that Daedalus	a cunning workman					tree rules
2	is	present	this labyrinth					wondrous property	tree rules

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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