Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 32

Not had the Minotaur had twenty bull-heads instead of one.

Who acts: Minotaur · What happens: not have, have · To what, where: twenty bull heads

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 (Minotaur), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 had	advmod
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Minotaur	det
4	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 heads	nummod
7	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heads	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 bull	punct
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 one	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 had	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past							tree rules
2	have	past	the Minotaur	twenty bull heads				instead one	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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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