Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 71
To-morrow, at breakfast time, you shall have an opportunity of judging which is the greater monster, the Minotaur or the king!
Who acts: you, opportunity · What happens: have, judge, be · To what, where: opportunity, greater 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 (you, opportunity), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morrow | punct |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | compound |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 time | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 opportunity | det |
| 13 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 judging | mark |
| 15 | judging | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 opportunity | acl |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 monster | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 monster | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 monster | det |
| 19 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 monster | amod |
| 20 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 opportunity | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Minotaur | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Minotaur | det |
| 23 | Minotaur | Minotaur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 monster | appos |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 king | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 monster | conj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | you | a opportunity | time | to morrow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient | ||
| 2 | judge | gerund | a opportunity not said here | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a opportunity | the greater monster or the king | 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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