Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 62

For my part, I wish he himself had been the only victim; and the monster would have found him a pretty tough one.

Who acts: I · What happens: wish, be, find · To what, where: Minos, only victim, monster

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 (I), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 part	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 part	nmod:poss
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wish	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 part	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wish	nsubj
6	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wish	iobj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	7 he	nmod:unmarked
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 victim	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 victim	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 victim	det
12	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 victim	amod
13	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 he	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 found	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 monster	det
17	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	nsubj:pass
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 found	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 found	aux
20	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wish	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 one	det
23	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	amod
24	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	amod
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I		Minos	for my part	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	is a	past · perfect	I not said here	the only victim			tree rules
3	find	would · perfect · passive		the monster			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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