Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 38
"I do not pretend to be very wise," said Jason. "
Who acts: Jason · What happens: not pretend, be, say · 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 (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 pretend | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pretend | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pretend | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 pretend | advmod |
| 5 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wise | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wise | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 wise | advmod |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pretend | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pretend | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pretend | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pretend in a quote | present · do-support | Jason | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | Jason not said here | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Jason | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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