Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 96

"No," answered the young man; "I will never leave Crete unless I can first slay the Minotaur, and save my poor companions, and deliver Athens from this cruel tribute."

Who acts: young man · What happens: answer, not leave, slay, save, deliver · To what, where: Crete, Minotaur, poor companions, Athens, cruel tribute · 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 (young man), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 leave	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 leave	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 leave	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 leave	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 leave	advmod
14	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	conj
15	Crete	Crete	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 leave	obj
16	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	20 slay	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 slay	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 slay	aux
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 slay	advmod
20	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 leave	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Minotaur	det
22	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 slay	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 save	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 save	cc
25	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 slay	conj
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 companions	nmod:poss
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 companions	amod
28	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 save	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 deliver	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 deliver	cc
31	deliver	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
32	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 deliver	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	36 tribute	case
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 tribute	det
35	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 tribute	amod
36	tribute	tribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 deliver	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the young man				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not leave in a quote	future	the young man = man	Crete			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crete=Theme
3	slay a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	the young man = man	the Minotaur		first property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minotaur=Patient
4	save in a quote	infinitive	the young man = man not said here	my poor companions			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Theme
5	deliver in a quote	present	the young man not said here	Athens	this cruel tribute		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent athens=Theme from tribute=Initial_Location

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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