Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 41

"I see some very tall objects," answered Jason; "but they are at such a distance that I cannot distinctly make out what they are.

Who acts: Jason, objects · What happens: see, answer, be, not make out · To what, where: tall objects, distance · 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 (Jason, objects), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	ccomp
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 objects	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 tall	advmod
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 objects	amod
7	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 distance	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 distance	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 distance	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 distance	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 distance	cop
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 distance	case
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 distance	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 distance	det
20	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	parataxis
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 make	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 make	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 make	advmod
25	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	26 make	advmod
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 distance	acl:relcl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 make	compound:prt
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 make	obj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 what	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 what	cop
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present	Jason	some tall objects		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer object=Stimulus
2	answer speech: assert	past	Jason			tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	objects = object		at such distance	tree rules
4	not make out in a quote	can	Jason	such distance	distinctly property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
5	is a in a quote	present	objects = object	such distance		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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