Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 79
He visited it again, therefore, and standing beside its huge, rough trunk, inquired what he should do next.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: visit, stand, inquire, do · To what, where: advice, huge rough trunk · 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 visited | nsubj |
| 2 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 visited | obj |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 visited | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 therefore | punct |
| 6 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 visited | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 standing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 standing | cc |
| 9 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 visited | advcl |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 15 trunk | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 12 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trunk | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 huge | punct |
| 14 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trunk | amod |
| 15 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 inquired | punct |
| 17 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 standing | conj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 do | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 inquired | ccomp |
| 22 | next | next | ADV | _ | 21 do | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | Jason | advice | again | therefore property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | stand | gerund | Jason not said here | advice's huge rough trunk | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside trunk=Location | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | participle | Jason not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | should | Jason | next property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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