Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 73
I have saved you, Theseus, as much for my father's sake as for your own.
Who acts: I · What happens: save · To what, where: you
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 saved | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 saved | aux |
| 3 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 saved | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Theseus | punct |
| 6 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saved | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 much | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saved | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 sake | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sake | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 father | case |
| 14 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 much | nmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 own | case |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 own | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sake | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | present · perfect | I | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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