Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 65

Now, some low-minded people, who pretend to tell the story of Theseus and Ariadne, have the face to say that this royal and honorable maiden did really flee away, under cover of the night, with the young stranger whose life she had preserved.

Who acts: minded people, royal maiden, Ariadne · What happens: pretend, tell, have, say, flee away, preserve · To what, where: story, face, life · 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 (minded people, royal maiden, Ariadne), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 have	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 people	det
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 minded	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 low	punct
6	minded	minded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 have	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pretend	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 pretend	nsubj
10	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 people	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pretend	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 story	det
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Theseus	case
16	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 story	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Ariadne	cc
18	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Theseus	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 people	punct
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 face	det
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 say	mark
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 face	acl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 flee	mark
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 maiden	det
27	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 maiden	amod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 honorable	cc
29	honorable	honorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 royal	conj
30	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flee	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 flee	aux
32	really	really	ADV	_	33 flee	advmod
33	flee	flee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 say	ccomp
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 flee	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 cover	punct
36	under	under	ADP	_	37 cover	case
37	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flee	parataxis
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 night	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 night	det
40	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cover	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 stranger	punct
42	with	with	ADP	_	45 stranger	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 stranger	det
44	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 stranger	amod
45	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cover	conj
46	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	47 life	nmod:poss
47	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 stranger	nmod
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 preserved	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 preserved	aux
50	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 life	acl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	present	some minded people				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	some minded people not said here	the story of Theseus and Ariadne			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	have	present	some minded people	the face	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	some minded people not said here	the face not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	flee away	past · do-support	this royal maiden			away property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	preserve	past · perfect	Ariadne	the young stranger the young stranger life's life's life not said here			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Beneficiary

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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