Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 45
Like an upright and honorable prince as he was, he determined to speak out the real truth.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: be, determine, speak out · To what, where: real truth
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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 6 prince | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 3 | upright | upright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 prince | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 honorable | cc |
| 5 | honorable | honorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 upright | conj |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 determined | obl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 was | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 was | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prince | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 prince | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 determined | nsubj |
| 12 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 speak | mark |
| 14 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 determined | xcomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 speak | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 truth | det |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 truth | amod |
| 18 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 speak | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Jason | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | determine | past | Jason | like a upright prince | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | speak out speech: other | to-infinitive | Jason not said here | the real truth | 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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