Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 78
They were now on their way to Greece, in hopes of getting back a kingdom that had been wrongfully taken from their father.
Who acts: princes, hopes · What happens: be, get back, take · To what, where: Greece, way, kingdom
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 (princes, hopes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 way | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 way | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Greece | case |
| 8 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 way | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hopes | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hopes | case |
| 11 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 way | conj |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 getting | mark |
| 13 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 hopes | acl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 getting | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 kingdom | det |
| 16 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 getting | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 taken | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 taken | aux:pass |
| 20 | wrongfully | wrongfully | ADV | _ | 21 taken | advmod |
| 21 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 kingdom | acl:relcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 father | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taken | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | princes = prince | Greece | princes's way and hopes | now | tree rules | ||
| 2 | get back | gerund | hopes not said here | a kingdom | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kingdom=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect · passive | a kingdom | from princes's father; wrongfully property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from father=Initial_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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