Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 7
Stay! take the end of this silken string; I will hold the other end; and then, if you win the victory, it will lead you again to this spot.
Who acts: you, I, victory · What happens: stay, take, hold, win, lead · To what, where: end, other end, victory, you, spot
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 (you, I, victory), 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 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stay | punct |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Stay | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 string | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 string | det |
| 8 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 string | amod |
| 9 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hold | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 hold | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hold | aux |
| 13 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Stay | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 end | amod |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 lead | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 lead | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 lead | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 then | punct |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 win | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 win | nsubj |
| 23 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 lead | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 victory | det |
| 25 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 win | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 win | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 lead | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 lead | aux |
| 29 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Stay | conj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 lead | obj |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 29 lead | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 spot | case |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 spot | det |
| 34 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lead | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | the end of this silken string | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | future | I | the other end | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme | ||||
| 4 | win a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the victory | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | lead | future | victory | you | this spot | then; again | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to spot=Destination |
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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