Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 77
Since that time, Phrixus had married the king's daughter; and the two young princes had been born and brought up at Colchis, and had spent their play-days in the outskirts of the grove, in the center of which the Golden Fleece was hanging upon a tree.
Who acts: Golden Fleece · What happens: marry, bear, bring up, spend, hang · To what, where: Phrixus, two young princes, Colchis, outskirts, tree
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 (Golden Fleece), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 married | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | Phrixus | Phrixus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 married | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | aux |
| 7 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 married | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 born | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 born | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princes | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 princes | nummod |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 princes | amod |
| 17 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 born | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 born | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 born | aux:pass |
| 20 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 married | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brought | cc |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 born | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 brought | compound:prt |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 Colchis | case |
| 25 | Colchis | Colchis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 brought | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 spent | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 spent | cc |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 spent | aux |
| 29 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 married | conj |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 days | nmod:poss |
| 31 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 days | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 play | punct |
| 33 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 spent | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 outskirts | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 outskirts | det |
| 36 | outskirts | outskirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 spent | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 grove | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 grove | det |
| 39 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 outskirts | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 center | punct |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 center | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 center | det |
| 43 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spent | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 which | case |
| 45 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 hanging | obl |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Fleece | det |
| 47 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 Fleece | amod |
| 48 | Fleece | Fleece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 hanging | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 hanging | aux |
| 50 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 center | acl |
| 51 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 53 tree | case |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 tree | det |
| 53 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 hanging | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · perfect · passive | Phrixus | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | past · perfect · passive | the two young princes | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | bring up | participle | Colchis | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | spend | past · perfect | the outskirts of the grove | day | in the center | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | hang | past · progressive | the Golden Fleece | a tree | of the center | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon tree=Location |
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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