Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 16
This was very unwise, to be sure; and I hope none of you, my little hearers, will ever follow Jason's example.
Who acts: This, I, Jason · What happens: be, hope, follow, exemplify · To what, where: none, example
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 (This, I, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 unwise | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unwise | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 unwise | advmod |
| 4 | unwise | unwise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sure | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sure | cop |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 unwise | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 hope | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hope | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 hope | nsubj |
| 12 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unwise | parataxis |
| 13 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 12 hope | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 none | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hearers | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hearers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hearers | amod |
| 19 | hearers | hearer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 none | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 follow | punct |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 follow | aux |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 follow | advmod |
| 23 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hope | conj |
| 24 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 example | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Jason | case |
| 26 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 follow | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unwise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | unwise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | This not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hope | present | I | none | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | follow | future | I not said here | Jason's example | ever | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=Theme | |||
| 5 | exemplify | Jason | nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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