Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 65
"Young man," asked he, with his stern voice, "are you not appalled at the certainty of being devoured by this terrible Minotaur?"
Who acts: Young man, terrible Minotaur · What happens: ask, not appall, devour · To what, where: King, certainty · 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 (Young man, terrible 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 man | punct |
| 2 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 appalled | advcl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 voice | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 voice | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 voice | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 voice | amod |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 voice | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 voice | punct |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 appalled | aux:pass |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 appalled | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 appalled | advmod |
| 18 | appalled | appall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 certainty | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 certainty | det |
| 21 | certainty | certainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 appalled | obl |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 devoured | mark |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 devoured | aux:pass |
| 24 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 certainty | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 Minotaur | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 Minotaur | det |
| 27 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Minotaur | amod |
| 28 | Minotaur | minotaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 devoured | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 appalled | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 appalled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Young man | King | with King's stern voice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not appall in a quote | present · passive | King | the certainty | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | devour in a quote | gerund · passive | this terrible Minotaur | the certainty not said here | 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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