Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 82

So saying, the king looked cruel enough to devour Theseus and all the rest of the captives himself, had there been no Minotaur to save him the trouble.

Who acts: king · What happens: say, look, devour, have, be, save · To what, where: Theseus, Minotaur, trouble, King · 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 (king), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 looked	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looked	xcomp
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 looked	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 devour	mark
10	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 looked	advcl
11	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 devour	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rest	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 rest	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rest	det
15	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Theseus	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 captives	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 captives	det
18	captives	captive	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rest	nmod
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 captives	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looked	conj
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 had	advmod
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 Minotaur	cop
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 Minotaur	det
25	Minotaur	minotaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 save	mark
27	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 save	obj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 trouble	det
30	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 save	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	the king not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	look	past	the king				cruel, enough property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	devour	to-infinitive	the king not said here	Theseus and all rest of the captives King				vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theseus=Patient
4	have	past	the king not said here			there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	participle	the king not said here	no Minotaur				tree rules
6	save	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the trouble	King			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary trouble=Theme

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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