Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 4

And finally, since he could not help it, King Aegeus consented to let him go.

Who acts: Theseus, King · What happens: not help, consent, let, go · To what, where: Minotaur, 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, King), 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	_	13 consented	cc
2	finally	finally	ADV	_	13 consented	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 finally	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 help	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 help	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 help	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 help	advmod
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 consented	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 help	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 consented	nsubj
12	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 King	flat
13	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 let	mark
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 consented	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not help	could	Theseus	Minotaur		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
2	consent	past	King		finally property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	let	to-infinitive	King not said here	Theseus		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	Theseus not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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