Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 55

He felt that he could never forgive himself, if this poor feeble creature should come to any harm in attempting to wrestle against the headlong current.

Who acts: Jason, feeble creature · What happens: feel, not forgive, come, attempt, wrestle · To what, where: Jason, harm

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, feeble creature), 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	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 forgive	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 forgive	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 forgive	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 forgive	advmod
7	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 felt	ccomp
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 forgive	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 come	mark
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 creature	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 feeble	amod
13	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 creature	amod
14	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 forgive	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 harm	case
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 harm	det
19	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
20	in	in	SCONJ	_	21 attempting	mark
21	attempting	attempt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 come	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 wrestle	mark
23	wrestle	wrestle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 attempting	xcomp
24	against	against	ADP	_	27 current	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 current	det
26	headlong	headlong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 current	amod
27	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wrestle	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Jason				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not forgive	could	Jason	Jason			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	come a condition, not said to happen	should	this feeble creature		any harm		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to harm=Initial_Location
4	attempt	gerund	this feeble creature not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	wrestle not said to happen	to-infinitive	this feeble creature not said here			against the headlong current	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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