Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 21
"O, daughter of the Talking Oak," cried he, "how shall we set to work to get our vessel into the water?"
Who acts: daughter, we · What happens: cry, set, work, get · To what, where: Jason, vessel, water · 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 (daughter, we), 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 | _ | 4 daughter | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 daughter | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 daughter | punct |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Oak | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Oak | det |
| 7 | Talking | Talking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Oak | compound |
| 8 | Oak | Oak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 daughter | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 set | advmod |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 set | aux |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 set | nsubj |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 work | mark |
| 20 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 set | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 work | advcl |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 24 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 water | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 water | det |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | daughter of the Talking Oak | Jason | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set in a quote | shall | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | our vessel | the water | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vessel=Stimulus |
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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