Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 38

But probably this was the sense of what he uttered:

Who acts: this, Minotaur · What happens: be, utter · To what, where: sense

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 (this, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 sense	cc
2	probably	probably	ADV	_	6 sense	advmod
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 sense	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sense	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sense	det
6	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sense	nmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 uttered	nsubj
10	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 sense	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this	the sense				probably property	tree rules
2	utter speech: other	past	Minotaur						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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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