Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 40
And while they were talking about it, Cyzicus pointed to the mountain, and asked Jason and his companions what they saw there.
Who acts: Argonauts, Cyzicus · What happens: talk, point, ask, see · To what, where: mountain, Jason
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, Cyzicus), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pointed | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 talking | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 talking | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 talking | aux |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 pointed | advcl |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 talking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
| 9 | Cyzicus | Cyzicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pointed | nsubj |
| 10 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 mountain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountain | det |
| 13 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pointed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pointed | parataxis |
| 17 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | iobj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 companions | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 companions | nmod:poss |
| 20 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Jason | conj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 saw | obj |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 asked | conj |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 saw | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past · progressive | Argonauts = argonaut | about country | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | point | past | Cyzicus | the mountain | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mountain=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Jason and Cyzicus's companions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jason=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Argonauts = argonaut | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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