Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 35
"I have heard of Chiron the schoolmaster," replied King Pelias, "and how that there is an immense deal of learning and wisdom in his head, although it happens to be set on a horse's body.
Who acts: King Pelias, it · What happens: hear, reply, be, happen, set · To what, where: schoolmaster, immense deal, body · 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 (King Pelias, it), 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 | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 replied | advcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Chiron | case |
| 6 | Chiron | Chiron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 schoolmaster | det |
| 8 | schoolmaster | schoolmaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Pelias | compound |
| 13 | Pelias | Pelias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 deal | cc |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 is | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 is | mark |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 deal | cop |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 deal | det |
| 22 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 deal | amod |
| 23 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 learning | case |
| 25 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 deal | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wisdom | cc |
| 27 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 learning | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 head | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 head | nmod:poss |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 learning | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 happens | punct |
| 32 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 34 happens | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 happens | nsubj |
| 34 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 set | mark |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 set | aux:pass |
| 37 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 happens | xcomp |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 body | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 horse | det |
| 40 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 body | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 horse | case |
| 42 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 set | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present · perfect | King Pelias = pelias | the schoolmaster | of Chiron | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of chiron=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | King Pelias | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | King Pelias not said here | a immense deal | of learning in Chiron's head and wisdom | tree rules | |||
| 4 | happen in a quote | present | it | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | set in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | a horse's body | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on body=Destination |
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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