Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 4
His name was Chiron; and, in spite of his odd appearance, he was a very excellent teacher, and had several scholars, who afterwards did him credit by making a great figure in the world.
Who acts: person, name, several scholars · What happens: be, have, do, make, name, spite · To what, where: Chiron, excellent teacher, spite, several scholars, person, great figure
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 (person, name, several scholars), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Chiron | cop |
| 4 | Chiron | Chiron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 teacher | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 teacher | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 and | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 spite | case |
| 9 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 teacher | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 appearance | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 12 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 appearance | amod |
| 13 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spite | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 spite | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 teacher | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 teacher | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 teacher | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 excellent | advmod |
| 19 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 teacher | amod |
| 20 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 name | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 scholars | amod |
| 25 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 did | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 did | nsubj |
| 28 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 29 did | advmod |
| 29 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 scholars | acl:relcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 did | obj |
| 31 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 did | obj |
| 32 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 33 making | mark |
| 33 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 did | advcl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 figure | det |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 figure | amod |
| 36 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 making | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 world | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 world | det |
| 39 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 figure | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Chiron | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | person | a excellent teacher | spite of person's odd appearance | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | past | person's name and a excellent teacher | several scholars | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scholar=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | past | several scholars | person | afterwards property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | make | gerund | several scholars not said here | a great figure | the world | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset figure=Product | |||
| 6 | name | person | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | spite | person's odd appearance | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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