Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 86

He felt conscious that he was wiser, and braver, and stronger than his companions, and that therefore he had the responsibility of all their lives upon him, and must consider whether there was no way to save them, even in this last extremity.

Who acts: Theseus, way · What happens: feel, be, have, consider, save · To what, where: responsibility, maidens, last extremity

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 (Theseus, way), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	conscious	conscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 wiser	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wiser	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wiser	cop
7	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 felt	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 braver	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 braver	cc
10	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 wiser	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stronger	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stronger	cc
13	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 felt	conj
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 companions	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 companions	nmod:poss
16	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stronger	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
20	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	22 had	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 responsibility	det
24	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 lives	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 lives	det:predet
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 lives	nmod:poss
28	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 responsibility	nmod
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lives	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 consider	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 consider	cc
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 consider	aux
34	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 had	conj
35	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	37 was	mark
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 was	expl
37	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 consider	ccomp
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 way	det
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 was	nsubj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 save	mark
41	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 way	acl
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 save	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 extremity	punct
44	even	even	ADV	_	48 extremity	advmod
45	in	in	ADP	_	48 extremity	case
46	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 extremity	det
47	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 extremity	amod
48	extremity	extremity	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 save	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Theseus			conscious property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	Theseus			wise property	tree rules
3	be		Theseus not said here				tree rules
4	have	past	Theseus	the responsibility of companions's lives upon King		therefore property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent responsibility=Patient
5	consider	must	Theseus not said here				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	be	past	no way		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	save	to-infinitive	no way not said here	maidens = maiden	this last extremity		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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