Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 50
In the first place it would be necessary to make a long voyage through unknown seas.
What happens: be, make · To what, where: first place, long voyage, unknown seas
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 place | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 place | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 place | amod |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 necessary | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 necessary | expl |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 necessary | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 necessary | cop |
| 8 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 necessary | csubj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 voyage | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voyage | amod |
| 13 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 seas | case |
| 15 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 seas | amod |
| 16 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 necessary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | the first place | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | a long voyage | unknown seas | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product |
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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