Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 77
You never met with better fortune than in losing that sandal.
Who acts: You · What happens: not meet, lose · To what, where: sandal
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 met | advmod |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 fortune | case |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 fortune | amod |
| 6 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obl |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 losing | mark |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 losing | mark |
| 9 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 met | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 sandal | det |
| 11 | sandal | sandal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 losing | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not meet | past | You | with better fortune | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with fortune=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | lose | gerund | You not said here | that sandal | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandal=Eventuality |
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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