Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 12
I wonder what the blacksmith charged him for a set of iron shoes?
Who acts: I, blacksmith · What happens: wonder, charge · To what, where: gentleman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, blacksmith), 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 | 2 wonder | nsubj |
| 2 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 charged | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blacksmith | det |
| 5 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 charged | nsubj |
| 6 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wonder | ccomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 charged | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 set | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 set | det |
| 10 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 charged | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 shoes | case |
| 12 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shoes | compound |
| 13 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 set | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | charge | past | the blacksmith | gentleman | for a set of iron shoes | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent what=Recipient he=Asset |
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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