Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 92
After traveling a pretty long distance, he came to a town situated at the foot of a mountain, and not a great way from the shore of the sea.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: travel, come, situate · To what, where: long distance, great way, town, foot
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), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 traveling | mark |
| 2 | traveling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 distance | det |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 distance | amod |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 traveling | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 traveling | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 town | acl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 foot | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 foot | det |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 situated | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mountain | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mountain | det |
| 19 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 foot | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 way | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 way | cc |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 way | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 way | amod |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 shore | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shore | det |
| 28 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 way | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 sea | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sea | det |
| 31 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shore | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | gerund | Jason not said here | a long distance | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Jason | a great way from the shore of the sea | a town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | situate | participle | a town not said here | the foot of a mountain | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at foot=Destination |
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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