Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 41

"Come on, then, and try it!" was all that Theseus deigned to reply; for he was far too magnanimous to assault his enemy with insolent language.

Who acts: you, Theseus · What happens: come on, try, deign, reply, be, assault · To what, where: roar, enemy · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, Theseus), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Come	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 try	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 try	cc
8	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Come	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 try	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 all	cop
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 deigned	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 deigned	mark
15	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 deigned	nsubj
16	deigned	deign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Come	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 reply	mark
18	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 deigned	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 magnanimous	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 magnanimous	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 magnanimous	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 magnanimous	cop
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 magnanimous	advmod
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 magnanimous	advmod
25	magnanimous	magnanimous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Come	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 assault	mark
27	assault	assault	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 magnanimous	xcomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 enemy	nmod:poss
29	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 assault	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 language	case
31	insolent	insolent	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 language	compound
32	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 assault	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come on in a quote	imperative	you not said here		then		tree rules
2	try in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	roar			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	deign	past	Theseus				tree rules
4	reply speech: express	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Theseus			far, magnanimous property	tree rules
6	assault	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here	Theseus's enemy		with insolent language	vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=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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