Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 66

They say, too, that Prince Theseus (who would have died sooner than wrong the meanest creature in the world) ungratefully deserted Ariadne, on a solitary island, where the vessel touched on its voyage to Athens.

Who acts: people, Prince Theseus, vessel · What happens: say, die, desert, touch, voyage · To what, where: Ariadne, solitary island, vessel, voyage · 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 (people, Prince Theseus, vessel), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 say	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 died	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 died	mark
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Theseus	compound
8	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 died	nsubj
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 died	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 died	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 died	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 died	aux
13	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 sooner	advcl
14	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 deserted	advmod
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 wrong	case
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sooner	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 creature	det
18	meanest	mean	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 creature	amod
19	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sooner	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 world	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 creature	nmod
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 sooner	punct
24	ungratefully	ungratefully	ADV	_	25 deserted	advmod
25	deserted	desert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 say	advcl
26	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 deserted	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 island	punct
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 island	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 island	det
30	solitary	solitary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 island	amod
31	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 deserted	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 vessel	punct
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 vessel	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 vessel	det
35	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 island	conj
36	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 vessel	acl
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 voyage	case
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 voyage	nmod:poss
39	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 touched	obl
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 Athens	case
41	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 voyage	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	die	would · perfect	Prince Theseus				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	desert	past	people not said here	Ariadne	a solitary island and the vessel	soon, ungratefully property	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme ariadne=Source
4	touch	participle		the vessel not said here	vessel's voyage to Athens		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	voyage		vessel			to Athens	nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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