Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 16
"It is no fault of mine," answered Jason. "
Who acts: dare, Jason · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: fault · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dare, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fault | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fault | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fault | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 fault | det |
| 5 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mine | case |
| 7 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fault | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fault | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | dare | no fault | of Jason | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Jason | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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