Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 102
They must have sturdy arms to row, and brave hearts to encounter perils, or we shall never win the Golden Fleece."
Who acts: oars, brave hearts, we · What happens: have, row, encounter, not win · To what, where: sturdy arms, perils, Golden Fleece
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 (oars, brave hearts, we), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | sturdy | sturdy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 arms | amod |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 row | mark |
| 7 | row | row | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 arms | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 encounter | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 encounter | cc |
| 10 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hearts | amod |
| 11 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 encounter | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 encounter | mark |
| 13 | encounter | encounter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | conj |
| 14 | perils | peril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 encounter | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 win | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 win | cc |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 win | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 win | aux |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 win | advmod |
| 20 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Fleece | det |
| 22 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Fleece | amod |
| 23 | Fleece | Fleece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 win | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | must | oars = oar | sturdy arms | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 2 | row | to-infinitive | oars = oar not said here | sturdy arms not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | encounter | to-infinitive | brave hearts | perils | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peril=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not win | shall | we | the Golden Fleece | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=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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