Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 54
But Jason, by this time, had grown ashamed of his reluctance to help her.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: grow, help · To what, where: mother
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 grown | cc |
| 2 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 grown | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Jason | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jason | punct |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grown | aux |
| 9 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grown | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 reluctance | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 reluctance | nmod:poss |
| 13 | reluctance | reluctance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ashamed | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 help | mark |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 reluctance | acl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect | Jason | ashamed property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | Jason not said here | mother | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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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