Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 69

Sitting there on thy golden throne, and in thy robes of majesty, I tell thee to thy face, King Minos, thou art a more hideous monster than the Minotaur himself!"

Who acts: I · What happens: sit, tell · To what, where: golden throne, thee, robes · 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 (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	Sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 art	advcl
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Sitting	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 throne	case
4	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 throne	nmod:poss
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 throne	amod
6	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 robes	case
10	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 robes	nmod:poss
11	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tell	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 majesty	case
13	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 robes	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 robes	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
16	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sitting	advcl
17	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 tell	iobj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 face	case
19	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 face	nmod:poss
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 King	punct
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 face	appos
23	Minos	Minos	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 King	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sitting	punct
25	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 art	nsubj
26	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 monster	det
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 hideous	advmod
29	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 monster	amod
30	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 art	obj
31	than	than	ADP	_	33 Minotaur	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Minotaur	det
33	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 monster	nmod
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 Minotaur	nmod
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 art	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 art	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund				thy golden throne; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
2	tell speech: assert	present	I		thee	thy robes of majesty		to thy face	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Topic to face=Recipient

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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