Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 57
If morning finds thee here, my father will avenge the Minotaur."
Who acts: morning, father · What happens: find, avenge · To what, where: thee, Minotaur
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 (morning, father), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 finds | mark |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 avenge | advcl |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 finds | obj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 finds | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 finds | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 avenge | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 avenge | aux |
| 10 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Minotaur | det |
| 12 | Minotaur | Minotaur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 avenge | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 avenge | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 avenge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find a condition, not said to happen | present | morning | thee | here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Topic | |||
| 2 | avenge | future | my father | the Minotaur | tree rules |
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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