Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 31
What! a hero like Theseus afraid!
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: 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 hero | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hero | det |
| 4 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | appos |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 Theseus | case |
| 6 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hero | nmod |
| 7 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Theseus | amod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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