Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 42

"What would you do, brave Jason," asked he, "if there were a man in the world, by whom, as you had reason to believe, you were doomed to be ruined and slain--what would you do, I say, if that man stood before you, and in your power?"

Who acts: you, Jason, I, man · What happens: do, ask, be, have, believe, doom · To what, where: brave Jason, Jason, reason, power · 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 (you, Jason, I, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 say	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Jason	punct
7	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Jason	amod
8	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 do	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	parataxis
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	iobj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 whom	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 whom	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 were	mark
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 were	expl
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 whom	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 were	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 world	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 whom	punct
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 whom	case
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 asked	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	conj
30	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 believe	mark
32	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 reason	acl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 doomed	punct
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 doomed	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 doomed	aux:pass
36	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 do	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	39 ruined	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 ruined	aux:pass
39	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 doomed	xcomp
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 slain	cc
41	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 ruined	conj
42	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 do	punct
43	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	46 do	obj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 do	aux
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 do	nsubj
46	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 doomed	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 say	punct
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 say	nsubj
49	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 stood	punct
51	if	if	SCONJ	_	54 stood	mark
52	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 man	det
53	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 stood	nsubj
54	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 say	ccomp
55	before	before	ADP	_	56 you	case
56	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 stood	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 power	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 power	cc
59	in	in	ADP	_	61 power	case
60	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 power	nmod:poss
61	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 stood	obl
62	?	?	PUNCT	_	61 power	punct
63	"	"	PUNCT	_	61 power	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	do in a quote	would	you	brave Jason				tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past			Jason			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is in a quote	past						tree rules
4	have in a quote	past	Jason	reason				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
5	believe in a quote	to-infinitive	Jason not said here	reason not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	doom in a quote	past · passive		Jason				tree rules
7	ruin in a quote	to-infinitive · passive						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»
8	slay in a quote	participle						vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	do in a quote	would	Jason					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
10	say speech: assert in a quote	present	I					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	stand a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	that man			your power	before Jason	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before you=Location

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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