Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 13
So Jason dwelt in the cave, with this four-footed Chiron, from the time that he was an infant, only a few months old, until he had grown to the full height of a man.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: dwell, be, grow · To what, where: cave, time
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 dwelt | advmod |
| 2 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dwelt | nsubj |
| 3 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cave | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cave | det |
| 6 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dwelt | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Chiron | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Chiron | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 Chiron | nsubj |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 footed | nummod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 four | punct |
| 12 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Chiron | amod |
| 13 | Chiron | Chiron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dwelt | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Chiron | appos |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 infant | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 infant | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 infant | cop |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 infant | det |
| 22 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 old | punct |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 months | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 months | det |
| 26 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 months | amod |
| 27 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 old | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 infant | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 grown | punct |
| 30 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 33 grown | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 grown | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 grown | aux |
| 33 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 dwelt | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 height | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 height | det |
| 36 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 height | amod |
| 37 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 grown | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 man | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 man | det |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 height | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | Jason | the cave | with footed Chiron | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | Jason | the time not said here | infant property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | Jason not said here | month | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | grow | past · perfect | Jason | to the full height of a man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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