Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 31

He must have had but a poor education, since he does not know how to cross a little stream like this.

Who acts: Jason · What happens: have, not know, cross · To what, where: little stream · 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	aux
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 education	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 education	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 education	amod
8	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
10	since	since	SCONJ	_	14 know	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
12	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	conj
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 cross	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 cross	mark
17	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 know	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stream	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stream	amod
20	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cross	obj
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 this	case
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 stream	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	must · perfect	Jason			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not know	present · do-support	Jason			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	cross	to-infinitive		a little stream	like this	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Patient

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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