Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 65

There was no possibility of making any resistance; and the fifty heroic Argonauts might all have been killed or wounded by a flock of troublesome birds, without ever setting eyes on the Golden Fleece, if Jason had not thought of asking the advice of the oaken image.

Who acts: possibility · What happens: be, make, kill, wound, set, not think · To what, where: resistance, fifty heroic Argonauts, eyes, Golden Fleece, Jason, advice

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 (possibility), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 possibility	det
4	possibility	possibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 making	mark
6	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 possibility	acl
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 resistance	det
8	resistance	resistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 making	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 killed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 killed	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Argonauts	det
12	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 Argonauts	nummod
13	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Argonauts	amod
14	Argonauts	argonaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 killed	nsubj:pass
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 killed	aux
16	all	all	ADV	_	19 killed	advmod
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 killed	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 killed	aux:pass
19	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	parataxis
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 wounded	cc
21	wounded	wound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 killed	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 flock	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 flock	det
24	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wounded	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 birds	case
26	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 birds	amod
27	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flock	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 setting	punct
29	without	without	SCONJ	_	31 setting	mark
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 setting	advmod
31	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 wounded	advcl
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 setting	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 Fleece	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Fleece	det
35	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Fleece	amod
36	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 setting	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 thought	punct
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 thought	mark
39	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 thought	nsubj:pass
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 thought	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 thought	advmod
42	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 killed	conj
43	of	of	SCONJ	_	44 asking	mark
44	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 thought	advcl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 advice	det
46	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 asking	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 image	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 image	det
49	oaken	oaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 image	amod
50	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 advice	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no possibility		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	gerund	no possibility not said here	any resistance				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset resistance=Product
3	kill	might · perfect · passive		the fifty heroic Argonauts			all property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	wound	participle					by a flock of troublesome birds	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	set	gerund		eyes	the Golden Fleece	ever		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on fleece=Destination
6	not think speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		Jason				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	ask speech: ask	gerund		the advice of the oaken image				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient

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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