Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 30

It originally belonged, it appears, to a Boeotian ram, who had taken on his back two children, when in danger of their lives, and fled with them over land and sea as far as Colchis.

Who acts: voyage, it, Boeotian ram · What happens: belong, appear, take, flee · To what, where: Boeotian ram, back, land

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 (voyage, it, Boeotian ram), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 belonged	nsubj
2	originally	originally	ADV	_	3 belonged	advmod
3	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 appears	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 appears	nsubj
6	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 belonged	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ram	punct
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 ram	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ram	det
10	Boeotian	boeotian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ram	amod
11	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appears	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taken	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 taken	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	aux
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 ram	acl:relcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 back	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 back	nmod:poss
18	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taken	obl
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 children	nummod
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 taken	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 danger	punct
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 danger	mark
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 danger	case
24	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ram	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 lives	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 lives	nmod:poss
27	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 danger	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fled	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fled	cc
30	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 belonged	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fled	obl
33	over	over	ADP	_	34 land	case
34	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fled	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sea	cc
36	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 land	conj
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 far	advmod
38	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 fled	advmod
39	as	as	ADP	_	40 Colchis	case
40	Colchis	Colchis	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 far	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 belonged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	belong	past	voyage			originally property	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	appear	present	it	a Boeotian ram			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ram=Theme
3	take	past · perfect	a Boeotian ram		Orpheus's back		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination
4	flee	past	voyage not said here		land and sea	with lives = life; far property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over land=Initial_Location

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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