Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 12

And, dearest Theseus, if by some happy chance, you should escape the jaws of the Minotaur, then tear down those dismal sails, and hoist others that shall be bright as the sunshine.

Who acts: you, hoist others · What happens: escape, tear down, be · To what, where: jaws, dismal sails

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 (you, hoist others), 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	_	3 dearest	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dearest	punct
3	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dearest	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 escape	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 escape	mark
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 chance	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 chance	det
9	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chance	amod
10	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 escape	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chance	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 escape	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 escape	aux
14	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dearest	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 jaws	det
16	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 escape	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Minotaur	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Minotaur	det
19	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 jaws	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tear	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 tear	advmod
22	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 escape	conj
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 tear	compound:prt
24	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 sails	det
25	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sails	amod
26	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tear	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 others	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 others	cc
29	hoist	hoist	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 others	compound
30	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sails	nmod
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 bright	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 bright	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 bright	cop
34	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 others	acl:relcl
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 sunshine	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sunshine	det
37	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bright	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dearest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	escape	should	you	the jaws of the Minotaur		by some happy chance	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme jaw=Initial_Location
2	tear down	infinitive	you not said here	that dismal sails hoist others	then		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location sail=Theme
3	is	shall	hoist others			as the sunshine; bright 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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