Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 58

If the figure that guarded Crete was made of brass, then the monarch, who ruled over it, might be thought to have a still harder metal in his breast, and might have been called a man of iron.

Who acts: figure, monarch · What happens: guard, make, rule, think, have, call · To what, where: Crete, figure, monarch, harder metal, breast, man · 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 (figure, monarch), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 made	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 figure	det
3	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj:pass
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 guarded	nsubj
5	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 figure	acl:relcl
6	Crete	Crete	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 guarded	obj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	aux:pass
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 brass	case
10	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 monarch	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 monarch	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 monarch	det
14	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brass	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ruled	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 ruled	nsubj
17	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 monarch	acl:relcl
18	over	over	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ruled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 thought	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 thought	aux:pass
23	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 made	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 have	mark
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 thought	xcomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 metal	det
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 harder	advmod
28	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 metal	amod
29	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 breast	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 breast	nmod:poss
32	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 called	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 called	cc
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 called	aux
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 called	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 called	aux:pass
38	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 made	parataxis
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 man	det
40	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 called	xcomp
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 iron	case
42	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 man	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	guard	past	the figure		Crete			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crete=Beneficiary
2	make	past · passive		the figure			of brass	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	rule	past	the monarch			monarch		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	might · passive						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Theme
5	have	to-infinitive		a harder metal		Crete's breast		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metal=Patient
6	call	might · perfect · passive		a man of iron				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

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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