Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 45

"Good mother," replied Jason, "your business can hardly be so important as the pulling down a king from his throne.

Who acts: Good mother, business · What happens: reply, be · 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 (Good mother, business), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 replied	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 important	punct
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 business	nmod:poss
11	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 important	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 important	aux
13	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	16 important	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 important	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 important	advmod
16	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 replied	parataxis
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 pulling	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pulling	det
19	pulling	pulling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 important	obl
20	down	down	ADP	_	16 important	compound:prt
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 important	parataxis
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 throne	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 throne	nmod:poss
25	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 king	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Good mother						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	can	your business					as the pulling; hardly, important property	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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