Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 82

There he lies yet; and whoever desires to enrich himself by means of brass had better go thither with a diving bell, and fish up Talus.

Who acts: Talus, whoever · What happens: lie, desire, enrich, mean, have, go · To what, where: Talus · 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 (Talus, whoever), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lies	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lies	nsubj
3	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	yet	yet	ADV	_	3 lies	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 desires	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 desires	cc
7	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 desires	nsubj
8	desires	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lies	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 enrich	mark
10	enrich	enrich	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 desires	xcomp
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 enrich	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 means	case
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 desires	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 brass	case
15	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obl
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 means	ccomp
17	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 go	advmod
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	thither	thither	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 bell	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bell	det
22	diving	diving	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bell	compound
23	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fish	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fish	cc
26	fish	fish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 lies	parataxis
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 fish	compound:prt
28	Talus	Talus	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 fish	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	Talus		there	yet		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	desire	present	whoever					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	enrich not said to happen	to-infinitive	whoever not said here	Talus				vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination
4	mean	present	whoever not said here					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have	past					of brass	tree rules
6	go	infinitive					with a diving bell; thither, well property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with bell=Beneficiary
7	fish up	infinitive		Talus				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talus=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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