Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 74

But on inquiry among the people of Iolchos, he found that there was really a man in the city, by the name of Argus, who was a very skilful builder of vessels.

Who acts: fancy, name · What happens: find, be, name · To what, where: man, inquiry, skilful builder, Argus

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 (fancy, name), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 inquiry	case
3	inquiry	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obl
4	among	among	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 inquiry	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Iolchos	case
8	Iolchos	Iolchos	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 people	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 inquiry	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 was	mark
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	advcl
15	really	really	ADV	_	17 man	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 city	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 city	det
20	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 name	punct
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 name	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 name	det
24	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Argus	case
26	Argus	Argus	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 name	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 builder	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 builder	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 builder	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 builder	det
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 skilful	advmod
32	skilful	skilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 builder	amod
33	builder	builder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 name	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 vessels	case
35	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 builder	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	fancy	a man in the city	inquiry among the people of Iolchos		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	be	past	fancy not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	the name of Argus and a skilful builder	a skilful builder		of vessels	tree rules
4	name			Argus			nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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