Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 34

It was hung upon a tree in a sacred grove, where it had now been kept I know not how many years, and was the envy of mighty kings, who had nothing so magnificent in any of their palaces.

Who acts: I, mighty kings · What happens: hang, keep, not know, be, have · To what, where: Fleece, sacred grove, envy, nothing

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 (I, mighty kings), 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 hung	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hung	aux:pass
3	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 grove	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 grove	det
9	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grove	amod
10	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kept	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 kept	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 kept	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 kept	aux
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 kept	advmod
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 kept	aux:pass
17	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 grove	acl:relcl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 kept	ccomp
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 know	advmod
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 many	advmod
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 years	amod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 know	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 envy	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 envy	cc
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 envy	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 envy	det
28	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 kings	case
30	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 kings	amod
31	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 envy	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 kings	acl:relcl
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 had	obj
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 magnificent	advmod
37	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 nothing	amod
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 any	case
39	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 magnificent	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 palaces	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 palaces	nmod:poss
42	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 any	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past · passive		Fleece	a sacred grove		upon a tree	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon tree=Destination
2	keep	past · perfect · passive		Fleece		now		tree rules
3	not know	present	I			year		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past		the envy			of mighty kings	tree rules
5	have	past	mighty kings	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient

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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