Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 21
And he clutched more closely the great knife in his hand, as if he were half a mind to slay Jason, instead of the black bull.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: clutch, be, slay · To what, where: great knife, hand, mind, Jason
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 clutched | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clutched | nsubj |
| 3 | clutched | clutch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 closely | advmod |
| 5 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 3 clutched | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 knife | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 knife | amod |
| 8 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clutched | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knife | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mind | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 mind | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 mind | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 mind | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 mind | cop |
| 17 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 19 mind | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mind | det |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clutched | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 slay | mark |
| 21 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 mind | acl |
| 22 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 slay | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bull | punct |
| 24 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 28 bull | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 instead | fixed |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bull | det |
| 27 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bull | amod |
| 28 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slay | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clutched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clutch | past | Jason | the great knife | Jason's hand | closely property | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | Jason | half mind | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slay | to-infinitive | Jason not said here | Jason | instead the black bull | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jason=Patient |
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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