Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 61
Thou art too gentle and sweet a child for such an iron-hearted father as King Minos.
Who acts: Thou · What happens: be, heart
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 (Thou), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 gentle | nsubj |
| 2 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gentle | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 gentle | advmod |
| 4 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sweet | cc |
| 6 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gentle | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gentle | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 father | case |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 father | det:predet |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 father | det |
| 12 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hearted | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 iron | punct |
| 14 | hearted | heart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 father | amod |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 child | nmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 Minos | case |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Minos | compound |
| 18 | Minos | Minos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 father | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gentle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Thou | gentle property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Thou not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | heart | participle | 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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