Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 67

But, had the noble Theseus heard these falsehoods, he would have served their slanderous authors as he served the Minotaur!

Who acts: noble Theseus, Theseus · What happens: have, hear, serve · To what, where: falsehoods, Theseus, Minotaur

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 (noble Theseus, Theseus), 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 had	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Theseus	det
5	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Theseus	amod
6	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 falsehoods	det
9	falsehoods	falsehood	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heard	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 served	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 served	nsubj:pass
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 served	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 served	aux
14	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 authors	nmod:poss
16	slanderous	slanderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 authors	amod
17	authors	author	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 served	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 served	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 served	nsubj
20	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 served	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Minotaur	det
22	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 served	obj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past			tree rules
2	hear	past	the noble Theseus	this falsehoods	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer falsehood=Stimulus
3	serve	would · perfect · passive		Theseus	tree rules
4	serve	past	Theseus	the Minotaur	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minotaur=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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