Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 53
On Jason's inquiring whether they could do him any service, the king answered that he was terribly tormented by three great winged creatures, called Harpies, which had the faces of women, and the wings, bodies, and claws of vultures.
Who acts: king, adventures, three, creatures, Harpies · What happens: inquire, do, answer, torment, wing, call · To what, where: Jason, wings, king, creatures, Harpies, faces · 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 (king, adventures, three, creatures), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 inquiring | mark |
| 2 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 inquiring | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Jason | case |
| 4 | inquiring | inquire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 answered | advcl |
| 5 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 inquiring | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 service | det |
| 11 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 inquiring | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | nsubj |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 tormented | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tormented | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tormented | aux:pass |
| 19 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 20 tormented | advmod |
| 20 | tormented | torment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 answered | ccomp |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 24 winged | mark |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 winged | nsubj |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 winged | nsubj |
| 24 | winged | wing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tormented | advcl |
| 25 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 winged | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 called | punct |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 creatures | acl |
| 28 | Harpies | harpy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 called | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 Harpies | acl:relcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 faces | det |
| 33 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 had | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 women | case |
| 35 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 faces | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 wings | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 wings | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 wings | det |
| 39 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 answered | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 bodies | punct |
| 41 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 wings | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 claws | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 claws | cc |
| 44 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 wings | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 vultures | case |
| 46 | vultures | vulture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 claws | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | gerund | the king not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | could | adventures = adventure | Jason | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the king | the wings and bodies and claws of vultures | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | torment | past · passive | king | terribly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | wing | past | three | creatures | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme creature=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | call | participle | creatures not said here | Harpies | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | have | past | Harpies | the faces of women | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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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