Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 60

The first thing that Jason thought of doing, after he left the king's presence, was to go to Dodona, and inquire of the Talking Oak what course it was best to pursue.

Who acts: Jason, first thing, course · What happens: think, do, leave, be, inquire, pursue · To what, where: first thing, presence, Dodona

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, first thing, course), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	nsubj:outer
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 thought	obj
5	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 doing	mark
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 thought	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 doing	punct
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 left	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 left	nsubj
12	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 presence	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 king	case
16	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thing	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 go	cop
19	to	to	PART	_	20 go	mark
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Dodona	case
22	Dodona	Dodona	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 inquire	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 inquire	cc
25	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 go	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 Oak	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Oak	det
28	Talking	Talking	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Oak	compound
29	Oak	Oak	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 inquire	obl
30	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	31 course	det
31	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 best	nsubj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 best	expl
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 best	cop
34	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 inquire	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 pursue	mark
36	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 best	csubj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Jason	the first thing			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute clause=Theme
2	do	gerund	Jason not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	leave	past	Jason	the king's presence			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Theme
4	is	past	the first thing		Dodona	go property	tree rules
5	inquire speech: other	infinitive	the first thing not said here			of the Talking Oak	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of oak=Recipient
6	is	past	what course			good property	tree rules
7	pursue	to-infinitive					vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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