Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 100
But certainly it was a great piece of good fortune that he should be able to carry so wise a block of wood along with him in his perilous voyage.
Who acts: thing, Jason · What happens: be, carry, voyage · To what, where: great piece, good fortune, wise block, perilous voyage
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 (thing, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 piece | cc |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 piece | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 piece | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 piece | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 piece | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 piece | amod |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fortune | case |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fortune | amod |
| 10 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 able | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 able | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 able | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | cop |
| 15 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fortune | acl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 carry | mark |
| 17 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | xcomp |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 wise | advmod |
| 19 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 block | amod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 block | det |
| 21 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carry | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 wood | case |
| 23 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 block | nmod |
| 24 | along | along | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carry | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 voyage | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 29 | perilous | perilous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 voyage | amod |
| 30 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carry | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 piece | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | thing | a great piece | of good fortune; certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | should | Jason | good fortune not said here | able property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | Jason not said here | a wise block of wood | Jason's perilous voyage | along Jason | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent block=Value in voyage=Location | ||
| 4 | voyage | Jason | nom voyage «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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