Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 68
Dost thou not tremble, wicked king, to turn thine eyes inward on thine own heart?
Who acts: thou · What happens: not tremble, turn · To what, where: wicked king, eyes, own heart
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 (thou), 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 | Dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tremble | aux |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 tremble | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 tremble | advmod |
| 4 | tremble | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 king | punct |
| 6 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 king | amod |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tremble | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turn | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 turn | mark |
| 10 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tremble | conj |
| 11 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turn | obj |
| 13 | inward | inward | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 turn | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 15 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 heart | amod |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turn | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tremble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tremble | present · do-support | thou | wicked king | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | to-infinitive | thou not said here | thine eyes | thine own heart | inward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=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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