Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 59
Then the Argonauts sailed onward and met with many other marvelous incidents, any one of which would make a story by itself.
Who acts: Argonauts, one · What happens: sail, meet, make · To what, where: story
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, one), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sailed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Argonauts | det |
| 3 | Argonauts | argonaut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sailed | nsubj |
| 4 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 4 sailed | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 met | cc |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sailed | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 incidents | case |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 incidents | amod |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 incidents | amod |
| 11 | marvelous | marvelous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 incidents | amod |
| 12 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 met | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sailed | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 make | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | aux |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 one | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 story | det |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 itself | case |
| 23 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 make | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | the Argonauts | then | onward property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | meet | past | the Argonauts not said here | with many other marvelous incidents | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with incident=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | would | any one | a story | by story | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product |
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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