Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 38
But the Argonauts saw that this good king looked downcast and very much troubled, and they therefore inquired of him what was the matter.
Who acts: Argonauts, good king · What happens: see, look, inquire, be · To what, where: downcast, matter · 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 (Argonauts, good king), 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 | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Argonauts | det |
| 3 | Argonauts | argonaut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 looked | mark |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 king | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 king | amod |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | downcast | downcast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 troubled | cc |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 troubled | advmod |
| 14 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looked | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 inquired | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 inquired | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 inquired | nsubj |
| 18 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 19 inquired | advmod |
| 19 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 inquired | obl |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 matter | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 matter | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 matter | det |
| 25 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 inquired | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Argonauts | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look | past | this good king | downcast | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme downcast=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | Argonauts = argonaut | of king; therefore property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the matter | 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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