Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 91
When the old dame and her peacock were out of sight, Jason set forward on his journey.
Who acts: old dame, Jason · What happens: be, set forward, journey · To what, where: sight, journey
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 (old dame, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 sight | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dame | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dame | amod |
| 4 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sight | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 peacock | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 peacock | nmod:poss |
| 7 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dame | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sight | cop |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sight | punct |
| 13 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 set | nsubj |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 14 set | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 journey | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 journey | nmod:poss |
| 18 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old dame and blessing's peacock | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set forward | past | Jason | Jason's journey | forward property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on journey=Destination | |||
| 3 | journey | Jason | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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