Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 61

But this immitigable Minos cared only to examine whether they were plump enough to satisfy the Minotaur's appetite.

Who acts: immitigable Minos, beauty · What happens: care, examine, be, satisfy · To what, where: appetite

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 (immitigable Minos, beauty), 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	_	5 cared	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 Minos	nsubj
3	immitigable	immitigable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Minos	amod
4	Minos	Minos	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cared	nsubj
5	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 examine	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 examine	mark
8	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cared	xcomp
9	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	12 plump	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 plump	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 plump	cop
12	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 examine	ccomp
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 plump	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 satisfy	mark
15	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 plump	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Minotaur	det
17	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 appetite	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Minotaur	case
19	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 satisfy	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	care	past	immitigable Minos			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	examine	to-infinitive	immitigable Minos not said here			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	beauty		enough, plump property	tree rules
4	satisfy	to-infinitive	beauty not said here	the Minotaur's appetite		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus appetite=Experiencer

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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