Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 1

When Jason, the son of the dethroned King of Iolchos, was a little boy, he was sent away from his parents, and placed under the queerest schoolmaster that ever you heard of.

Who acts: Jason, you · What happens: dethrone, be, send away, place, hear · To what, where: little boy, Jason, queerest schoolmaster

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jason, you), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	16 boy	mark
2	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 boy	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 son	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 son	det
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jason	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 King	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
8	dethroned	dethrone	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 King	amod
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Iolchos	case
11	Iolchos	Iolchos	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 King	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Jason	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 boy	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 boy	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sent	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 boy	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sent	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sent	aux:pass
20	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 sent	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 parents	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 parents	nmod:poss
24	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 away	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 placed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 placed	cc
27	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 sent	conj
28	under	under	ADP	_	31 schoolmaster	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 schoolmaster	det
30	queerest	queer	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 schoolmaster	amod
31	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 placed	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 heard	obj
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 heard	advmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 heard	nsubj
35	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 schoolmaster	acl:relcl
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 heard	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dethrone	participle					tree rules
2	is a	past	Jason	a little boy			tree rules
3	send away	past · passive		Jason		away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	place	participle				under the queerest schoolmaster	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under schoolmaster=Destination
5	hear	past	you	the queerest schoolmaster	ever		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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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