Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 111

Shaking hands with Jason, they assured him that they did not care a pin for their lives, but would help row the vessel to the remotest edge of the world, and as much farther as he might think it best to go.

Who acts: dangers, hand · What happens: shake, assure, not care, help, row, think · To what, where: hands, hand, pin, vessel, remotest edge

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 (dangers, hand), 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	Shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 assured	advcl
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shaking	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 Jason	case
4	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Shaking	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Shaking	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 assured	nsubj
7	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 assured	iobj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 care	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 care	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 care	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 care	advmod
13	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 assured	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pin	det
15	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 care	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 lives	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lives	nmod:poss
18	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 care	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 help	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 help	cc
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 help	aux
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 assured	advcl
23	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 help	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 vessel	det
25	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 row	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 edge	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 edge	det
28	remotest	remote	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 edge	amod
29	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 row	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 edge	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 farther	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 farther	cc
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 much	advmod
36	much	much	ADV	_	37 farther	advmod
37	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 assured	conj
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 think	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 think	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 think	aux
41	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 farther	advcl
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 think	obj
43	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 think	ccomp
44	to	to	PART	_	45 go	mark
45	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 best	acl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 assured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund	dangers = danger not said here	hands			with Jason	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with jason=Co-Patient
2	assure	past	dangers = danger		hand			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not care	past · do-support	dangers = danger	a pin			for dangers's lives	tree rules
4	help	would	dangers = danger not said here					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	row	infinitive	dangers = danger not said here	the vessel		the remotest edge of the world		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme to edge=Trajectory
6	think speech: other	might	hand	pin				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
7	go	to-infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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