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

But he assured his father that he did not intend to be eaten up, unresistingly, like a sheep, and that, if the Minotaur devoured him, it should not be without a battle for his dinner.

Who acts: Theseus, Minotaur · What happens: assure, not intend, eat up, devour, not be · To what, where: that, father, 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, Minotaur), 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	_	3 assured	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 assured	nsubj
3	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assured	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 intend	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 intend	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 intend	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 intend	advmod
10	intend	intend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 assured	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	13 eaten	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 eaten	aux:pass
13	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 intend	ccomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 eaten	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 unresistingly	punct
16	unresistingly	unresistingly	ADV	_	13 eaten	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sheep	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 sheep	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sheep	det
20	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eaten	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 that	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 that	cc
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 assured	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 devoured	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 devoured	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Minotaur	det
27	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 devoured	nsubj
28	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 assured	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 devoured	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 battle	punct
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 battle	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 battle	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 battle	advmod
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 battle	cop
35	without	without	ADP	_	37 battle	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 battle	det
37	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 devoured	obl
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 dinner	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 dinner	nmod:poss
40	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 battle	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 assured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	assure	past	Theseus	that	Theseus's father		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not intend	past · do-support	Theseus				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat up not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	Theseus not said here			unresistingly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»
4	devour a condition, not said to happen	past	the Minotaur	Theseus			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	not is	should	Minotaur			without a battle; for Theseus's dinner	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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