Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 24

And there he was, the wretched thing, with no society, no companion, no kind of a mate, living only to do mischief, and incapable of knowing what affection means.

Who acts: Theseus, incapable · What happens: be, live, do, know, mean · To what, where: wretched thing, mischief, affection

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 (Theseus, incapable), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 thing	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 he	expl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 society	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 society	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 society	det
12	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 companion	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 companion	det
15	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 society	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kind	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 kind	det
18	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 society	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 mate	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mate	det
21	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kind	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 living	punct
23	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 society	conj
24	only	only	ADV	_	26 do	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 living	xcomp
27	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 do	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 incapable	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 incapable	cc
30	incapable	incapable	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 means	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 knowing	case
32	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 incapable	acl
33	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	34 affection	det
34	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knowing	obj
35	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	Theseus	the wretched thing	tree rules
2	live	gerund	Theseus not said here		tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here	mischief	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality
4	know	gerund	incapable not said here	what affection	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer affection=Stimulus
5	mean	present	incapable	the wretched thing not said here	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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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