Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 73

Orpheus celebrated this victory by playing a triumphant anthem on his harp, and sang so melodiously that Jason begged him to desist, lest, as the steel-feathered birds had been driven away by an ugly sound, they might be enticed back again by a sweet one.

Who acts: Orpheus, Jason, ugly sound, sweet one · What happens: celebrate, play, sing, beg, desist, drive away · To what, where: victory, triumphant anthem, harp, Orpheus, steel feathered birds, birds

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 (Orpheus, Jason, ugly sound, sweet 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	Orpheus	Orpheus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 celebrated	nsubj
2	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 victory	det
4	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 celebrated	obj
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 playing	mark
6	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 celebrated	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 anthem	det
8	triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 anthem	amod
9	anthem	anthem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 playing	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 harp	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 harp	nmod:poss
12	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 playing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sang	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sang	cc
15	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 celebrated	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 melodiously	advmod
17	melodiously	melodiously	ADV	_	15 sang	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 begged	mark
19	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 begged	nsubj
20	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sang	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 begged	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 desist	mark
23	desist	desist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 begged	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lest	punct
25	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	23 desist	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 driven	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 driven	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 birds	det
29	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 birds	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 steel	punct
31	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 birds	amod
32	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 driven	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 driven	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 driven	aux:pass
35	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 desist	advcl
36	away	away	ADV	_	35 driven	advmod
37	by	by	ADP	_	40 sound	case
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 sound	det
39	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 sound	amod
40	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 driven	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 enticed	punct
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 enticed	nsubj
43	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 enticed	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 enticed	aux:pass
45	enticed	entice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 driven	conj
46	back	back	ADV	_	47 again	advmod
47	again	again	ADV	_	45 enticed	advmod
48	by	by	ADP	_	51 one	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 one	det
50	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 one	amod
51	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 enticed	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 celebrated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	celebrate	past	Orpheus	this victory					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Theme
2	play	gerund	Orpheus not said here	a triumphant anthem		Orpheus's harp			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anthem=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past	Orpheus not said here					melodiously property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	beg speech: request	past	Jason		Orpheus				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	desist not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jason not said here						vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	drive away	past · perfect · passive	a ugly sound	the steel feathered birds				away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
7	entice	might · passive	a sweet one	birds = bird			again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer

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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