Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 75

And what sort of a figure shall I cut, at the court of King Pelias, with a golden-stringed sandal on one foot, and the other foot bare!"

Who acts: sort · What happens: cut, sort · To what, where: 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 (sort), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 cut	cc
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 sort	det
3	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 figure	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 figure	det
6	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sort	nmod
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	aux
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 cut	nsubj
9	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 court	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 court	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 court	det
13	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Pelias	case
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Pelias	compound
16	Pelias	Pelias	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 court	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sandal	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	23 sandal	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sandal	det
20	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sandal	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 golden	punct
22	stringed	stringed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sandal	amod
23	sandal	sandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 foot	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 foot	nummod
26	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sandal	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bare	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bare	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 foot	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 foot	amod
31	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bare	nsubj
32	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cut	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	shall	what sort of a figure					with a golden stringed sandal on one foot; at the court of King Pelias	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at court=Patient with sandal=Instrument
2	sort			a figure					nom sort «cognition 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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