Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 108

Yet in the very center of this labyrinth is the Minotaur; and, Theseus, you must go thither to seek him."

Who acts: Theseus · What happens: be, go, seek · To what, where: Minotaur, center, Theseus

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 (Theseus), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	11 Minotaur	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 center	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 center	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 center	advmod
5	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Minotaur	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 labyrinth	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 labyrinth	det
8	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 center	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Minotaur	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Minotaur	det
11	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 go	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 and	punct
15	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 go	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Theseus	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Minotaur	parataxis
20	thither	thither	ADV	_	22 seek	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 seek	mark
22	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seek	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the Minotaur	the center of this labyrinth		tree rules
2	go	must	Theseus				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seek	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here	Theseus		thither property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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