Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 28

But, as he was naturally a bold and hard-hearted man, he soon took courage, and began to consider in what way he might rid himself of this terrible one-sandaled stranger.

Who acts: king, bold hearted man · What happens: be, take, begin, consider, rid, sandal · To what, where: bold hearted man, courage, way, king

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 (king, bold hearted man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 man	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 man	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 man	cop
6	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	13 man	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
8	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hard	cc
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bold	conj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 hard	punct
12	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 took	nsubj
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 took	advmod
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 consider	mark
23	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 way	case
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 way	nsubj
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 consider	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 rid	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 rid	aux
29	rid	rid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 way	acl:relcl
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 rid	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	37 stranger	case
32	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 stranger	nsubj
33	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 stranger	amod
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sandaled	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 one	punct
36	sandaled	sandal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 stranger	amod
37	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rid	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	king	a bold hearted man		naturally property	tree rules
2	take	past	a bold hearted man	courage		soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
3	begin	past	a bold hearted man not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	consider	to-infinitive	a bold hearted man not said here		way		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
5	rid	might	king	king		of terrible sandaled stranger	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Source of stranger=Theme
6	sandal	participle					tree rules

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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