Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 62
He cares no more for thee than a granite rock cares for the little flower that grows in one of its crevices.
Who acts: Minos, granite rock, little flower · What happens: care, grow · To what, where: more
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 (Minos, granite rock, little flower), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cares | nsubj |
| 2 | cares | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 4 more | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 cares | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 thee | case |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 cares | obl |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 cares | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rock | det |
| 9 | granite | granite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rock | compound |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cares | nsubj |
| 11 | cares | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cares | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 flower | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flower | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flower | amod |
| 15 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cares | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 grows | nsubj |
| 17 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 flower | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 grows | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 crevices | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 crevices | nmod:poss |
| 22 | crevices | crevice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cares | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | present | Minos | more | for thee | tree rules | |||
| 2 | care | present | a granite rock | for the little flower | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for flower=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | the little flower | in one of rock's crevices | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=Location |
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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