Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 81

Go water thy flowers, and think no more of these Athenian caitiffs, whom the Minotaur shall as certainly eat up for breakfast as I will eat a partridge for my supper."

Who acts: you, Minotaur, I · What happens: go, think, eat up, eat · To what, where: water, more, Athenian caitiffs, partridge

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, Minotaur, 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	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obj
3	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 flowers	nmod:poss
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Go	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 think	cc
7	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
8	no	no	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 think	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 caitiffs	case
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 caitiffs	det
12	Athenian	Athenian	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 caitiffs	compound
13	caitiffs	caitiff	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 more	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 whom	punct
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 eat	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Minotaur	det
17	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 eat	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 eat	aux
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 certainly	advmod
20	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	21 eat	advmod
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 caitiffs	acl:relcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 eat	compound:prt
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 breakfast	case
24	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eat	obl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 eat	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 eat	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 eat	aux
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 think	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 partridge	det
30	partridge	partridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 supper	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 supper	nmod:poss
33	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	water	thy flowers obl	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme
2	think speech: other	infinitive	you not said here	more		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme
3	eat up	shall	the Minotaur	this Athenian caitiffs	for breakfast; certainly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient
4	eat	future	I	a partridge	for my supper	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partridge=Patient

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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