Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 48
"I would send such a man," said he, "in quest of the Golden Fleece!"
Who acts: Jason, Golden Fleece · What happens: send, say, quest · To what, where: man, quest · 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, Golden Fleece), 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 | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 send | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | aux |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 man | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | parataxis |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 quest | case |
| 15 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Fleece | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Fleece | det |
| 18 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Fleece | amod |
| 19 | Fleece | Fleece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 quest | nmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | would | Jason | such man | quest of the Golden Fleece | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jason | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | quest in a quote | the Golden Fleece | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=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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