Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 32

But the other (a little boy, named Phrixus) was brought safe ashore by the faithful ram, who, however, was so exhausted that he immediately lay down and died.

Who acts: faithful ram, boy · What happens: name, bring, be, lie down, die · To what, where: little boy, other

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 (faithful ram, boy), 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	_	13 brought	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 other	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 brought	nsubj:pass
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	nsubj:pass
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 named	punct
9	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 boy	acl
10	Phrixus	Phrixus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 named	xcomp
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 named	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brought	aux:pass
13	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 brought	xcomp
15	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	13 brought	advmod
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 ram	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ram	det
18	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ram	amod
19	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 exhausted	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 exhausted	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 who	punct
23	however	however	ADV	_	27 exhausted	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 however	punct
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 exhausted	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 exhausted	advmod
27	exhausted	exhausted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ram	parataxis
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 lay	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 lay	nsubj
30	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	31 lay	advmod
31	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 exhausted	advcl
32	down	down	ADV	_	31 lay	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 died	cc
34	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 lay	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	name	participle		a little boy not said here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	bring	past · passive	the faithful ram	the other	ashore, safe property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	is	past	the faithful ram		exhausted, however property	tree rules
4	lie down	past	boy		down, immediately property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	die	past	boy not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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