Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 19
With this intention, he took a spear in each hand, and threw a leopard's skin over his shoulders, to keep off the rain, and set forth on his travels, with his long yellow ringlets waving in the wind.
Who acts: Jason, long yellow ringlets · What happens: take, throw, keep off, set, travel, wave · To what, where: spear, hand, skin, shoulders, rain
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, long yellow ringlets), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 intention | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 intention | det |
| 3 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 intention | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 spear | det |
| 8 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 hand | det |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 threw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 threw | cc |
| 14 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 leopard | det |
| 16 | leopard | leopard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 skin | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 leopard | case |
| 18 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 threw | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 shoulders | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 threw | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 keep | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 keep | mark |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | parataxis |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 keep | compound:prt |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rain | det |
| 27 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 set | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 set | cc |
| 30 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 keep | conj |
| 31 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 30 set | advmod |
| 32 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 34 travels | mark |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 travels | nmod:poss |
| 34 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 set | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 ringlets | punct |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 ringlets | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 ringlets | nmod:poss |
| 38 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 ringlets | amod |
| 39 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 ringlets | amod |
| 40 | ringlets | ringlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 travels | obl |
| 41 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 ringlets | acl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 wind | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 wind | det |
| 44 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 waving | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Jason | a spear | each hand | with this intention | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent spear=Value in hand=Location | ||
| 2 | throw | past | Jason not said here | a leopard's skin | Jason's shoulders | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent skin=Theme over shoulder=Destination | |||
| 3 | keep off | to-infinitive | the rain | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | |||||
| 4 | set | infinitive | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | travel | present | with Jason's long yellow ringlets | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | wave | gerund | Jason's long yellow ringlets not said here | in the wind | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=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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