Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 73

When it was quite gone, Jason felt inclined to doubt whether he had actually heard the words, or whether his fancy had not shaped them out of the ordinary sound made by a breeze, while passing through the thick foliage of the tree.

Who acts: voice, Jason · What happens: be, feel, doubt, hear, not shape, make · To what, where: words, fancy, ordinary sound, thick foliage

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 (voice, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 gone	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 felt	punct
7	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 felt	nsubj
8	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	conj
9	inclined	inclined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 felt	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 doubt	mark
11	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 felt	xcomp
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	16 heard	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	aux
15	actually	actually	ADV	_	16 heard	advmod
16	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 doubt	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 words	det
18	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heard	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shaped	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 shaped	cc
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	26 shaped	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 fancy	nmod:poss
23	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shaped	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 shaped	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 shaped	advmod
26	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 heard	parataxis
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shaped	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	32 sound	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 sound	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sound	det
31	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sound	amod
32	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shaped	obl
33	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 sound	acl
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 breeze	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 breeze	det
36	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 passing	punct
38	while	while	SCONJ	_	39 passing	mark
39	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 shaped	conj
40	through	through	ADP	_	43 foliage	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 foliage	det
42	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 foliage	amod
43	foliage	foliage	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 passing	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 tree	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 tree	det
46	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 foliage	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	voice			gone property	tree rules
2	feel	past	Jason			inclined property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	doubt	to-infinitive	Jason not said here				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	hear	past · perfect	Jason	the words		actually property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
5	not shape	past · perfect · passive		Jason's fancy	the ordinary sound		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Product
6	make	participle		the ordinary sound not said here		by a breeze	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	pass	gerund			the thick foliage of the tree		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through foliage=Location
8	fancy		Jason				nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=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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