Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 98

Recovering a little from his surprise, Jason bethought himself that the image had been carved out of the wood of the Talking Oak, and that, therefore, it was really no great wonder, but on the contrary, the most natural thing in the world, that it should possess the faculty of speech.

Who acts: Jason, image, natural thing · What happens: recover, bethink, carve out, be, possess, surprise · To what, where: little, surprise, Jason, image, wood, great wonder

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, image, natural thing), 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	Recovering	recover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 bethought	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Recovering	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 surprise	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 surprise	nmod:poss
6	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Recovering	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Recovering	punct
8	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bethought	nsubj
9	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 bethought	obj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 carved	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 image	det
13	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carved	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 carved	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 carved	aux:pass
16	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 bethought	advcl
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 wood	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 wood	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wood	det
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carved	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 Oak	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Oak	det
23	Talking	Talking	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Oak	compound
24	Oak	Oak	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 wood	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 that	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 that	cc
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 bethought	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 wonder	punct
29	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	36 wonder	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 wonder	punct
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wonder	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 wonder	cop
33	really	really	ADV	_	36 wonder	advmod
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 wonder	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 wonder	amod
36	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 that	appos
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 possess	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 possess	cc
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 contrary	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 contrary	det
41	contrary	contrary	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 possess	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 contrary	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 thing	det
44	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	45 natural	advmod
45	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 thing	amod
46	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 possess	nsubj:outer
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 world	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 world	det
49	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 thing	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 possess	punct
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 possess	mark
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 possess	nsubj
53	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 possess	aux
54	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 bethought	conj
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 faculty	det
56	faculty	faculty	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 possess	obj
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 speech	case
58	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 faculty	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 bethought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recover	gerund	Jason not said here	a little	Jason's surprise		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent little=Theme from surprise=Source
2	bethink	past	Jason	Jason			tree rules
3	carve out	past · perfect · passive		the image	the wood of the Talking Oak		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary wood=Product
4	is a	past	image	no great wonder		therefore property	tree rules
5	possess	should	the natural thing in the world	the faculty of speech	the contrary		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot faculty=Theme
6	surprise		Jason				nom surprise «feeling 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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