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Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 15

At length, being now a tall and athletic youth, Jason resolved to seek his fortune in the world, without asking Chiron's advice, or telling him anything about the matter.

Who acts: Jason · What happens: be, resolve, seek, ask, tell · To what, where: tall youth, length, fortune, world, advice, anything · 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 (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

caseoblpunctcopadvmoddetamodccconjconjpunctnsubjmarkxcompnmod:possobjcasedetoblpunctmarkadvclnmod:posscaseobjpunctccconjiobjobjcasedetnmodpunctrootAtADPlengthNOUN,PUNCTbeingAUXnowADVaDETtallADJandCCONJathleticADJyouthNOUN,PUNCTJasonPROPNresolvedVERBtoPARTseekVERBhisPRONfortuneNOUNinADPtheDETworldNOUN,PUNCTwithoutSCONJaskingVERBChironPROPN'sPARTadviceNOUN,PUNCTorCCONJtellingVERBhimPRONanythingPRONaboutADPtheDETmatterNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_2 lengthcase
2lengthlengthNOUNNumber=Sing13 resolvedobl
3,,PUNCT_10 youthpunct
4beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 youthcop
5nownowADVPronType=Dem10 youthadvmod
6aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 youthdet
7talltallADJDegree=Pos10 youthamod
8andandCCONJ_9 athleticcc
9athleticathleticADJDegree=Pos7 tallconj
10youthyouthNOUNNumber=Sing2 lengthconj
11,,PUNCT_2 lengthpunct
12JasonJasonPROPNNumber=Sing13 resolvednsubj
13resolvedresolveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
14totoPART_15 seekmark
15seekseekVERBVerbForm=Inf13 resolvedxcomp
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 fortunenmod:poss
17fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing15 seekobj
18ininADP_20 worldcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 worlddet
20worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing15 seekobl
21,,PUNCT_23 askingpunct
22withoutwithoutSCONJ_23 askingmark
23askingaskVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 seekadvcl
24ChironChironPROPNNumber=Sing26 advicenmod:poss
25's'sPART_24 Chironcase
26adviceadviceNOUNNumber=Sing23 askingobj
27,,PUNCT_29 tellingpunct
28ororCCONJ_29 tellingcc
29tellingtellVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part23 askingconj
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 tellingiobj
31anythinganythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind29 tellingobj
32aboutaboutADP_34 mattercase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 matterdet
34mattermatterNOUNNumber=Sing31 anythingnmod
35..PUNCT_13 resolvedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is agerundJason not said herea tall youthnowtree rules
2resolvepastJasonlength and a tall youthtree rules
3seekto-infinitiveJason not said hereJason's fortunethe worldvn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme in world=Location
4ask speech: askgerundJason not said hereChiron's advicevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient
5tell speech: assertgerundJason not said hereanythingJasonabout the mattervn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Topic

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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