Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 10
How this labyrinth was built is more than I can tell you.
Who acts: labyrinth, I · What happens: build, be, tell · To what, where: labyrinth, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (labyrinth, 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 more | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 labyrinth | det |
| 3 | labyrinth | labyrinth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 more | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 built | aux:pass |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 labyrinth | acl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 more | cop |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | aux |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 more | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | this labyrinth not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V» | |||||
| 2 | is | present | this labyrinth | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | can | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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