Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 66
"I have offered my life in a good cause," answered Theseus, "and therefore I give it freely and gladly.
Who acts: Theseus · What happens: offer, answer, give · To what, where: Theseus, good cause, cause · 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 (Theseus), 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 | _ | 4 offered | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 offered | aux |
| 4 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 answered | advcl |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offered | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cause | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cause | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cause | amod |
| 10 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 offered | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 offered | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 give | cc |
| 18 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 20 give | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 give | nsubj |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 answered | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 give | obj |
| 22 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 20 give | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gladly | cc |
| 24 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 22 freely | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Theseus | a good cause | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal life=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Theseus | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | present | Theseus | cause | freely, therefore property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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