Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 72

At first, King Minos will be angry; but he will soon forgive his only child; and, by and by, he will rejoice, I know, that no more youths and maidens must come from Athens to be devoured by the Minotaur.

Who acts: King, I, more youths, Minotaur · What happens: be, forgive, rejoice, know, come, devour · To what, where: only child, Athens

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 (King, I, more youths, Minotaur), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 angry	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 first	punct
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 angry	nsubj
5	Minos	Minos	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 King	flat
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 angry	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 angry	cop
8	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 forgive	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 forgive	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 forgive	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 forgive	aux
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 forgive	advmod
14	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 angry	parataxis
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 child	nmod:poss
16	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 child	amod
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 forgive	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 rejoice	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rejoice	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	27 rejoice	mark
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 by	cc
23	by	by	ADP	_	21 by	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 by	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 rejoice	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 rejoice	aux
27	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 forgive	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 know	nsubj
30	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 angry	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 come	punct
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 come	mark
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 youths	det
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 youths	amod
35	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 come	nsubj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 maidens	cc
37	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 youths	conj
38	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 come	aux
39	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 know	conj
40	from	from	ADP	_	41 Athens	case
41	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 come	obl
42	to	to	PART	_	44 devoured	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 devoured	aux:pass
44	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 come	advcl
45	by	by	ADP	_	47 Minotaur	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Minotaur	det
47	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 devoured	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	future	King			angry property	tree rules
2	forgive	future	King	King's only child		soon property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
3	rejoice	future	King				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	come	must	no more youths and maidens		Athens		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from athens=Initial_Location
6	devour	to-infinitive · passive	the Minotaur				vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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