Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 74

While the Argonauts remained on this island, they saw a small vessel approaching the shore, in which were two young men of princely demeanor, and exceedingly handsome, as young princes generally were, in those days.

Who acts: Argonauts, small vessel · What happens: remain, see, approach, be · To what, where: island, small vessel, shore, two young men

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, small vessel), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 remained	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Argonauts	det
3	Argonauts	argonaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remained	nsubj
4	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 island	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 island	det
7	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remained	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 remained	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 vessel	det
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 vessel	amod
13	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
14	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 vessel	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shore	det
16	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 approaching	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 men	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 men	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 men	cop
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 men	nummod
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 men	amod
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 approaching	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 demeanor	case
25	princely	princely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 demeanor	amod
26	demeanor	demeanor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 men	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 handsome	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 handsome	cc
29	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	30 handsome	advmod
30	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 saw	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 princes	punct
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 princes	case
33	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 princes	amod
34	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 handsome	obl
35	generally	generally	ADV	_	40 days	advmod
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 days	cop
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 days	punct
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 days	case
39	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	40 days	det
40	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 princes	appos
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the Argonauts		this island			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location
2	see	past	Argonauts = argonaut	a small vessel				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vessel=Stimulus
3	approach	gerund	a small vessel not said here	the shore				vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
4	is a	past		two young men			of princely demeanor	tree rules
5	is	past				in that days	generally property	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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