Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 29
"My good young man," said King Pelias, taking the softest tone imaginable, in order to throw Jason off his guard, "you are excessively welcome to my kingdom.
Who acts: good young man, you · What happens: say, take, throw, be · To what, where: softest tone, Jason, guard · 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 (good young man, you), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 man | nmod:poss |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | Pelias | Pelias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tone | det |
| 14 | softest | soft | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 tone | amod |
| 15 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 16 | imaginable | imaginable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tone | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 throw | punct |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 throw | mark |
| 19 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 in | fixed |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 throw | mark |
| 21 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 taking | advcl |
| 22 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 throw | obj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 guard | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 guard | nmod:poss |
| 25 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 throw | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 welcome | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 welcome | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 welcome | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 welcome | cop |
| 30 | excessively | excessively | ADV | _ | 31 welcome | advmod |
| 31 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 throw | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 kingdom | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 34 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 welcome | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My good young man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | gerund | My good young man not said here | the softest tone | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | to-infinitive | My good young man not said here | Jason | king's guard | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent jason=Theme off guard=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | to my kingdom; excessively, welcome property | 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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