Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 63

But my father, King Aegeus, and my dear mother, Aethra, and all the fathers and mothers in Athens, and all the sons and daughters too, will love and honor thee as their benefactress.

Who acts: sons · What happens: love, honor · To what, where: thee

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 (sons), 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	_	3 father	cc
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 King	punct
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 father	appos
6	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 King	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mother	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mother	cc
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mother	amod
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 father	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Aethra	punct
13	Aethra	Aethra	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mother	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fathers	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fathers	cc
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 fathers	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fathers	det
18	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mother	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mothers	cc
20	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fathers	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 Athens	case
22	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 fathers	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 love	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 love	cc
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 sons	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sons	det
27	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 love	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 daughters	cc
29	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sons	conj
30	too	too	ADV	_	27 sons	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sons	punct
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 love	aux
33	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 mother	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 honor	cc
35	honor	honor	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 love	conj
36	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 honor	obj
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 benefactress	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 benefactress	nmod:poss
39	benefactress	benefactress	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 honor	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	future	all sons and daughters						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	honor	infinitive	all sons and daughters not said here	thee				as sons's benefactress	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent thou=Theme as benefactress=Attribute

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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