Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 72
Take them away, guards; and let this free-spoken youth be the Minotaur's first morsel."
Who acts: you, spoken youth · What happens: take away, let, speak, be · To what, where: eyes, spoken youth, first morsel · 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 (you, spoken youth), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 guards | punct |
| 5 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 youth | det |
| 10 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spoken | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 free | punct |
| 12 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 youth | amod |
| 13 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 let | obj |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 morsel | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Minotaur | det |
| 16 | Minotaur | Minotaur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 morsel | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Minotaur | case |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 morsel | amod |
| 19 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 let | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | imperative | you not said here | eyes = eye | guards obl; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | this spoken youth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | participle | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | this spoken youth not said here | the Minotaur's first morsel | 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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