Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 104

And, in fact, considering what a great deed was to be done, could any advice be wiser than this which Jason received from the figure-head of his vessel?

Who acts: fact, advice · What happens: consider, do, be, receive · To what, where: great deed, fact, figure head

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 (fact, advice), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 wiser	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fact	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 fact	case
4	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wiser	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 considering	punct
6	considering	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 fact	acl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 done	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 deed	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 deed	amod
10	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 done	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux:pass
12	to	to	PART	_	14 done	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 done	aux:pass
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 considering	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fact	punct
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 wiser	aux
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 advice	det
18	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wiser	nsubj
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 wiser	cop
20	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
21	than	than	ADP	_	22 this	case
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 wiser	obl
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 received	nsubj
24	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 received	nsubj
25	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wiser	parataxis
26	from	from	ADP	_	30 head	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 head	det
28	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 head	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 figure	punct
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 received	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 vessel	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 vessel	nmod:poss
33	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 head	nmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 wiser	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consider	gerund	fact not said here				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	past · passive		a great deed			tree rules
3	is	could	any advice		fact	than this; wise property	tree rules
4	receive	past			the figure head of Jason's vessel		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from head=Source

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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