Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 12

There can be nothing else so intricate, unless it were the brain of a man like Daedalus, who planned it, or the heart of any ordinary man; which last, to be sure, is ten times as great a mystery as the labyrinth of Crete.

Who acts: nothing, mizmaze, brain · What happens: be, plan · To what, where: brain, mizmaze, ten times

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 (nothing, mizmaze, brain), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 be	nsubj
5	else	else	ADV	_	4 nothing	advmod
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 intricate	case
7	intricate	intricate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nothing	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brain	punct
9	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	13 brain	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brain	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brain	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brain	det
13	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 be	parataxis
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 man	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brain	nmod
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 Daedalus	case
18	Daedalus	Daedalus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 man	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 planned	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 planned	nsubj
21	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brain	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 planned	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heart	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 heart	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 heart	det
26	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 planned	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 man	case
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 man	det
29	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heart	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 sure	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 sure	ccomp
33	last	last	ADV	_	37 sure	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sure	punct
35	to	to	PART	_	37 sure	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 sure	cop
37	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 heart	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 times	punct
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 times	cop
40	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 times	nummod
41	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 great	obl:unmarked
42	as	as	ADV	_	43 great	advmod
43	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 mystery	amod
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 mystery	det
45	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sure	ccomp
46	as	as	ADP	_	48 labyrinth	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 labyrinth	det
48	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 mystery	nmod
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 Crete	case
50	Crete	Crete	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 labyrinth	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	can	can	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	mizmaze	the brain		of a man like Daedalus	tree rules
3	plan	past	the brain	mizmaze			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	is	to-infinitive				last, sure property	tree rules
5	is a	present		ten times			tree rules

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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