Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 50
"We bring the seven youths and the seven maidens," answered the master, "to be devoured by the Minotaur!"
Who acts: We, master, Minotaur · What happens: bring, answer, devour · To what, where: seven youths · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, master, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 answered | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youths | det |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 youths | nummod |
| 6 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bring | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 maidens | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maidens | det |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 maidens | nummod |
| 10 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 youths | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 master | det |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 devoured | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 devoured | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 devoured | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 devoured | aux:pass |
| 20 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 answered | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 Minotaur | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Minotaur | det |
| 23 | Minotaur | Minotaur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 devoured | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 Minotaur | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Minotaur | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | present | We | the seven youths and the seven maidens | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent youth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: express | past | the master | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | devour in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | the Minotaur | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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