Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 71

"Go to Argus, the shipbuilder, and bid him build a galley with fifty oars."

Who acts: you · What happens: go, bid, build · To what, where: Argus, galley

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 (you), 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	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Argus	case
4	Argus	Argus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shipbuilder	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shipbuilder	det
7	shipbuilder	shipbuilder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Argus	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bid	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bid	cc
10	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bid	obj
12	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bid	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 galley	det
14	galley	galley	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 build	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 oars	case
16	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 oars	nummod
17	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 build	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	imperative	you not said here		Argus		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to argus=Initial_Location
2	bid in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	Argus			tree rules
3	build in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	a galley		with fifty oars	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent galley=Theme with oar=Source

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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