Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 47
Therefore, after a moment's consideration, he spoke up, with a firm and manly voice.
Who acts: Jason, moment · What happens: speak up, consider
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, moment), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 10 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 consideration | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consideration | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 7 | consideration | consideration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoke | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 consideration | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spoke | nsubj |
| 10 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 spoke | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 voice | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 voice | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 voice | det |
| 15 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 voice | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 manly | cc |
| 17 | manly | manly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 firm | conj |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoke | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak up speech: other | past | Jason | after a moment's consideration | with a firm voice; therefore property | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | consider | a moment | nom consideration «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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