Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 71
At this accident Jason could not help uttering a cry of vexation.
Who acts: Jason, vexation · What happens: not help, utter, cry · To what, where: accident, cry
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, vexation), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 accident | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 accident | det |
| 3 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 help | obl |
| 4 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 help | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 help | advmod |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | uttering | utter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 help | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cry | det |
| 10 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 uttering | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 vexation | case |
| 12 | vexation | vexation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cry | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | could | Jason | this accident | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other not said to happen | gerund | Jason not said here | a cry of vexation | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cry | vexation | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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