Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 75

She really wept indeed, at the idea of how much human happiness would be needlessly thrown away, by giving so many young people, in the first bloom and rose blossom of their lives, to be eaten up by a creature who, no doubt, would have preferred a fat ox, or even a large pig, to the plumpest of them.

Who acts: Ariadne, creature · What happens: weep, throw away, give, rise, eat up, prefer · To what, where: idea, many young people, first bloom, blossom, creature

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 (Ariadne, creature), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wept	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 wept	advmod
3	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	3 wept	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 idea	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 idea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 idea	det
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thrown	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 happiness	case
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 happiness	amod
12	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 happiness	amod
13	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 idea	nmod
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 thrown	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 thrown	aux:pass
16	needlessly	needlessly	ADV	_	17 thrown	advmod
17	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wept	parataxis
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 thrown	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 giving	punct
20	by	by	SCONJ	_	21 giving	mark
21	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 thrown	advcl
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 many	advmod
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 people	amod
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 people	amod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 giving	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bloom	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 bloom	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bloom	det
29	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 bloom	amod
30	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 giving	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rose	cc
32	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thrown	conj
33	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rose	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 lives	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 lives	nmod:poss
36	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 blossom	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 eaten	punct
38	to	to	PART	_	40 eaten	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 eaten	aux:pass
40	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wept	conj
41	up	up	ADP	_	40 eaten	compound:prt
42	by	by	ADP	_	44 creature	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 creature	det
44	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 eaten	obl
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 preferred	nsubj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 preferred	punct
47	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	48 doubt	det
48	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 preferred	nsubj:pass
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 doubt	punct
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 preferred	aux
51	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 preferred	aux
52	preferred	prefer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 creature	acl:relcl
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 ox	det
54	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 ox	amod
55	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 preferred	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 pig	punct
57	or	or	CCONJ	_	61 pig	cc
58	even	even	ADV	_	61 pig	advmod
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 pig	det
60	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 pig	amod
61	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 ox	conj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 plumpest	punct
63	to	to	ADP	_	65 plumpest	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 plumpest	det
65	plumpest	plump	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 eaten	obl:unmarked
66	of	of	ADP	_	67 them	case
67	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 plumpest	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	past	Ariadne			indeed property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	throw away	would · passive		the idea of much human happiness		away, needlessly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	give	gerund		many young people	the first bloom		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
4	rise	past		blossom of people's lives			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blossom=Theme
5	eat up	to-infinitive · passive	a creature			to the plumpest	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	prefer	would · perfect · passive		a creature			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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