Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 44

Still he scorned to tell a falsehood.

Who acts: Jason · What happens: scorn, tell · To what, where: falsehood · 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	Still	still	ADV	_	3 scorned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scorned	nsubj
3	scorned	scorn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 scorned	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 falsehood	det
7	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 scorned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scorn	past	Jason				still		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Jason not said here	a falsehood					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent falsehood=Recipient

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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