Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 20
All at once, Jason bethought himself of the galley's miraculous figure-head.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: bethink · To what, where: Jason
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 (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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 Jason | det |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 All | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 All | punct |
| 5 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bethought | nsubj |
| 6 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 bethought | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 galley | det |
| 10 | galley | galley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 galley | case |
| 12 | miraculous | miraculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 head | amod |
| 13 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 head | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 figure | punct |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bethought | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bethought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bethink | past | all Jason | Jason | of the galley's miraculous figure head | tree rules |
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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