Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 64
"What shall I do," said he, "in order to win the Golden Fleece?"
Who acts: Jason · What happens: do, say, win · To what, where: 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 (Jason), 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 he | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 he | punct |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 win | mark |
| 13 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 in | fixed |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 win | mark |
| 15 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Fleece | det |
| 17 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Fleece | amod |
| 18 | Fleece | Fleece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 win | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 Fleece | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 win | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | shall | Jason | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Jason | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | win in a quote | to-infinitive | the Golden Fleece | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Eventuality |
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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