Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 32
Or is he afraid of wetting his fine golden-stringed sandals?
Who acts: Jason · What happens: be, wet · To what, where: fine stringed sandals
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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 afraid | cc |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 wetting | mark |
| 6 | wetting | wet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 afraid | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sandals | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sandals | amod |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stringed | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 golden | punct |
| 11 | stringed | stringed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sandals | amod |
| 12 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wetting | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Jason | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wet | gerund | Jason not said here | Jason's fine stringed sandals | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sandal=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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