Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 91

Jason was delighted with the oaken image, and gave the carver no rest until it was completed, and set up where a figure-head has always stood, from that time to this, in the vessel's prow.

Who acts: Jason, figure head · What happens: be, give, complete, set up, stand · To what, where: carver, rest, prow

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, figure 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	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 delighted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delighted	cop
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 image	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 image	det
6	oaken	oaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 image	amod
7	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 delighted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delighted	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 carver	det
12	carver	carver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 rest	det
14	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 completed	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 completed	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 completed	aux:pass
18	completed	complete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gave	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 set	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 set	cc
21	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 delighted	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 set	compound:prt
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 stood	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 head	det
25	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 head	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 figure	punct
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stood	nsubj
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 stood	aux
29	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	30 stood	advmod
30	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 set	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 time	punct
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 time	case
33	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 time	det
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stood	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 this	case
36	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 time	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 prow	punct
38	in	in	ADP	_	42 prow	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 vessel	det
40	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 prow	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 vessel	case
42	prow	prow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stood	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Jason				with the oaken image; delighted property	tree rules
2	give	past	Jason not said here	the carver				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent carver=Recipient rest=Theme
3	complete	past · passive		rest				vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	set up	infinitive	Jason not said here					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	stand	present · perfect	a figure head		the vessel's prow	time	always property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in prow=Location

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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