Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 93

"There is no need of that, Jason," said a voice which, though it was far lower, reminded him of the mighty tones of the great oak. "

Who acts: need, lower · What happens: be, say, remind, need, intonate · To what, where: voice, Jason, that, great oak · 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 (need, lower), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 need	det
5	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 need	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Jason	punct
9	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 need	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 voice	det
14	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 voice	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lower	punct
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 lower	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lower	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lower	cop
20	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 lower	advmod
21	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 said	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 reminded	punct
23	reminded	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lower	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 reminded	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 tones	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tones	det
27	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tones	amod
28	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 reminded	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 oak	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 oak	det
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 oak	amod
32	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tones	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	no need of that			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	lower	a voice				tree rules
3	is	past	need				far, low property	tree rules
4	remind speech: other	past	need not said here		Jason		of the mighty tones of the great oak	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of tone=Topic
5	need in a quote			that				nom need «state transitive»: of=patient
6	intonate			the great oak				nom tone «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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