Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 51

There was hardly a hope, or a possibility, that any young man who should undertake this voyage would either succeed in obtaining the Golden Fleece, or would survive to return home, and tell of the perils he had run.

Who acts: hope, young man, man · What happens: be, undertake, succeed, obtain, survive, return · To what, where: voyage, Golden Fleece · 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 (hope, young man, man), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hope	det
5	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 possibility	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 possibility	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 possibility	det
9	possibility	possibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hope	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 succeed	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 succeed	mark
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 succeed	nsubj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 undertake	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 undertake	aux
17	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 man	acl:relcl
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 voyage	det
19	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 undertake	obj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 succeed	aux
21	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 succeed	advmod
22	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	parataxis
23	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 obtaining	mark
24	obtaining	obtain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 succeed	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Fleece	det
26	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Fleece	amod
27	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 obtaining	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 survive	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 survive	cc
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 survive	aux
31	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 succeed	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 return	mark
33	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 survive	xcomp
34	home	home	ADV	_	33 return	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 tell	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 tell	cc
37	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 succeed	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 perils	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 perils	det
40	perils	peril	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 tell	obl
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 run	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 run	aux
43	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 tell	ccomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a hope or a possibility		there	hardly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	undertake	should	any young man	this voyage			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Eventuality
3	succeed	would	any young man			either property	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	obtain	gerund	any young man not said here	the Golden Fleece			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fleece=Theme
5	survive	would	any young man not said here				tree rules
6	return	to-infinitive	any young man not said here			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	infinitive	any young man not said here			of the perils	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	run	past · perfect	man				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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