Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 109
There was a fair prospect that they would meet with plenty of such adventures before finding the Golden Fleece.
Who acts: fair prospect, dangers · What happens: be, meet, find · To what, where: fair prospect, 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 (fair prospect, dangers), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prospect | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prospect | amod |
| 5 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 meet | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 meet | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 meet | aux |
| 9 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 prospect | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 plenty | case |
| 11 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meet | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 adventures | case |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 adventures | amod |
| 14 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 plenty | nmod |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 finding | mark |
| 16 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 meet | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Fleece | det |
| 18 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Fleece | amod |
| 19 | Fleece | Fleece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 finding | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a fair prospect | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | would | dangers = danger | a fair prospect not said here | with plenty of such adventures | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent prospect=Theme with plenty=Instrument | |||
| 3 | find | gerund | dangers = danger not said here | the Golden Fleece | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Topic |
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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