Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 29

In order to make the time pass away more pleasantly during the voyage, the heroes talked about the Golden Fleece.

Who acts: heroes · What happens: make, pass away, talk · To what, where: voyage

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 (heroes), 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	In	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 make	mark
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 In	fixed
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 pass	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 pleasantly	advmod
10	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	7 pass	advmod
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 voyage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 voyage	det
13	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pass	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 talked	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heroes	det
16	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 talked	nsubj
17	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 voyage	acl:relcl
18	about	about	ADP	_	21 Fleece	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Fleece	det
20	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Fleece	amod
21	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 talked	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive			time		tree rules
2	pass away	infinitive			during the voyage	away, pleasantly property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	talk	past	the heroes	the voyage not said here		about the Golden Fleece	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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