Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 17
But, you are to understand, he had heard how that he himself was a prince royal, and how his father, King Jason, had been deprived of the kingdom of Iolchos by a certain Pelias, who would also have killed Jason, had he not been hidden in the Centaur's cave.
Who acts: you, Jason, certain Pelias · What happens: be, hear, deprive, kill, have, not hide · To what, where: prince royal, father, certain Pelias, Jason, cave
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 (you, Jason, certain Pelias), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 understand | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 understand | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 understand | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 understand | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 understand | mark |
| 6 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | aux |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 understand | parataxis |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 heard | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 royal | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 royal | nsubj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 13 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 royal | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 royal | det |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 royal | compound |
| 18 | royal | royal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 deprived | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 deprived | cc |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 deprived | advmod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 deprived | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Jason | punct |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Jason | nmod:desc |
| 26 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 father | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 father | punct |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 deprived | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 deprived | aux:pass |
| 30 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 heard | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 kingdom | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 kingdom | det |
| 33 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 deprived | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Iolchos | case |
| 35 | Iolchos | Iolchos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 kingdom | nmod |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 Pelias | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 Pelias | det |
| 38 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Pelias | amod |
| 39 | Pelias | Pelias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 deprived | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 killed | punct |
| 41 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 killed | aux |
| 43 | also | also | ADV | _ | 45 killed | advmod |
| 44 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 killed | aux |
| 45 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 Pelias | acl:relcl |
| 46 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 killed | obj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 had | punct |
| 48 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 hidden | nsubj |
| 50 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 52 hidden | advmod |
| 51 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 52 hidden | aux:pass |
| 52 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 had | xcomp |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 cave | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 Centaur | det |
| 55 | Centaur | Centaur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 cave | nmod:poss |
| 56 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 55 Centaur | case |
| 57 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 hidden | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | understand property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect | Jason | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Jason | a prince royal | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | deprive | past · perfect · passive | a certain Pelias | Jason's father | of the kingdom of Iolchos | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Source of kingdom=Theme | |||
| 5 | kill | would · perfect · passive | a certain Pelias | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer jason=Result | |||||
| 6 | have | past | Jason not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not hide | participle · passive | Jason | the Centaur's cave | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in cave=Location |
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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