Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 12

If the sea only happened to be deep enough, however, Lynceus could tell you exactly what kind of rocks or sands were at the bottom of it; and he often cried out to his companions, that they were sailing over heaps of sunken treasure, which yet he was none the richer for beholding.

Who acts: sea, Lynceus, kind, Jason · What happens: happen, be, tell, cry out, sail, behold · To what, where: you, bottom, companions, heaps, none · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, Lynceus, kind, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 happened	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happened	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 happened	advmod
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	8 deep	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 deep	cop
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 happened	xcomp
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 deep	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
11	however	however	ADV	_	15 tell	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 however	punct
13	Lynceus	Lynceus	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 tell	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	27 bottom	advmod
18	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	19 kind	det
19	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bottom	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 rocks	case
21	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 bottom	nsubj
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 sands	cc
23	sands	sand	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rocks	conj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bottom	cop
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 bottom	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bottom	det
27	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bottom	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 cried	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 cried	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 cried	nsubj
33	often	often	ADV	_	34 cried	advmod
34	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	conj
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 cried	compound:prt
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 companions	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 companions	nmod:poss
38	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 cried	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sailing	punct
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 sailing	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 sailing	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 sailing	aux
43	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 cried	advcl
44	over	over	ADP	_	45 heaps	case
45	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 sailing	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 treasure	case
47	sunken	sunken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 treasure	amod
48	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 heaps	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 richer	punct
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 richer	nsubj
51	yet	yet	ADV	_	54 none	advmod
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 none	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 none	cop
54	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	56 richer	nsubj
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 richer	det
56	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	48 treasure	conj
57	for	for	SCONJ	_	58 beholding	mark
58	beholding	behold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 richer	advcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen a condition, not said to happen	past	the sea						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	the sea not said here					deep, enough property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	could	Lynceus		you			however property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is	past	what kind			the bottom		of sea; exactly property	tree rules
5	cry out speech: express	past	Jason		Jason's companions			often property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to companion=Recipient
6	sail	past · progressive	Lynceus			heaps of sunken treasure			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over heap=Trajectory
7	is a	past	Jason	none			yet		tree rules
8	behold	gerund	Lynceus not said here						vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

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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