Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 83
Accordingly, Jason took the branch at its word, and lopped it off the tree.
Who acts: Jason, head · What happens: take, lop, word · To what, where: branch, word, head, tree
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, head), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Accordingly | punct |
| 3 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 branch | det |
| 6 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 word | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 word | nmod:poss |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lopped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lopped | cc |
| 12 | lopped | lop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lopped | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lopped | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Jason | the branch | head's word | accordingly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent branch=Theme at word=Asset | ||
| 2 | lop | past | Jason not said here | head | the tree | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme off tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | word | head | nom word «communication 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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