Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 10
Poor Jason was greatly abashed, and made up his mind that the people of Iolchos were exceedingly ill-bred, to take such public notice of an accidental deficiency in his dress.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: abash, make up, breed, take, mind, notice · To what, where: Poor Jason, mind, people, such public notice, dress, accidental deficiency
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Jason | amod |
| 2 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 abashed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 abashed | aux:pass |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 abashed | advmod |
| 5 | abashed | abash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 abashed | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 made | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mind | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 bred | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bred | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Iolchos | case |
| 16 | Iolchos | Iolchos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 people | nmod |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bred | aux:pass |
| 18 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 21 bred | advmod |
| 19 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bred | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ill | punct |
| 21 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 made | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 take | mark |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 abashed | conj |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 notice | amod |
| 26 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 notice | amod |
| 27 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 deficiency | case |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 deficiency | det |
| 30 | accidental | accidental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 deficiency | amod |
| 31 | deficiency | deficiency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 notice | nmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 dress | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 dress | nmod:poss |
| 34 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 abashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abash | past · passive | Poor Jason | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | make up | participle | Jason's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | breed | past · passive | the people of Iolchos | exceedingly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | such public notice of a accidental deficiency | Jason's dress | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent notice=Value in dress=Location | ||||
| 5 | mind | Jason | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | notice | a accidental deficiency | nom notice «communication 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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