Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 20

The part of his dress on which he most prided himself was a pair of sandals, that had been his father's.

Who acts: Jason, part, that · What happens: pride, be · To what, where: Jason, dress, pair

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, part, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 part	det
2	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pair	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dress	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dress	nmod:poss
5	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 part	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 prided	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 prided	nsubj
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 prided	advmod
10	prided	pride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dress	acl:relcl
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 prided	obj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pair	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pair	det
14	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 sandals	case
16	sandals	sandal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pair	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 father	punct
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 father	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 father	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 father	cop
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pair	conj
23	's	's	PART	_	22 father	case
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 pair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pride	past	Jason	Jason	Jason's dress		tree rules
2	is a	past	the part of Jason's dress	a pair and Jason's father		of sandals	tree rules
3	is	past · perfect	that			's Jason's father	tree rules

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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