Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 15

But when the Argonauts, as these fifty brave adventurers were called, had prepared everything for the voyage, an unforeseen difficulty threatened to end it before it was begun.

Who acts: Argonauts · What happens: call, prepare, threaten, end, begin · To what, where: fifty brave adventurers, Argonauts, unforeseen difficulty, difficulty · 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 (Argonauts), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 prepared	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 prepared	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Argonauts	det
4	Argonauts	argonaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 prepared	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 called	mark
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 adventurers	det
8	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 adventurers	nummod
9	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 adventurers	amod
10	adventurers	adventurer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 called	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 called	aux:pass
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Argonauts	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 prepared	aux
15	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 prepared	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 voyage	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 voyage	det
19	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 prepared	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 difficulty	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 difficulty	det
22	unforeseen	unforeseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 difficulty	amod
23	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 voyage	appos
24	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 difficulty	acl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 end	mark
26	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 threatened	xcomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 end	obj
28	before	before	SCONJ	_	31 begun	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 begun	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 begun	aux:pass
31	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 end	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	past · passive	the Argonauts not said here	this fifty brave adventurers		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	prepare	past · perfect · passive		the Argonauts	for the voyage	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary everything=Product
3	threaten	participle		a unforeseen difficulty not said here		tree rules
4	end not said to happen	to-infinitive		difficulty		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality
5	begin	past · passive		difficulty		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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