Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 79
When the princes understood whither the Argonauts were going, they offered to turn back, and guide them to Colchis.
Who acts: princes, Argonauts · What happens: understand, go, offer, turn back, guide · To what, where: princes, Colchis · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Argonauts), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 understood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princes | det |
| 3 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 understood | nsubj |
| 4 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 offered | advcl |
| 5 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 going | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Argonauts | det |
| 7 | Argonauts | argonaut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 going | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 understood | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 understood | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 offered | nsubj |
| 12 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 turn | mark |
| 14 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 offered | xcomp |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 turn | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 guide | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 guide | cc |
| 18 | guide | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 turn | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 guide | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Colchis | case |
| 21 | Colchis | Colchis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 guide | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | the princes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | the Argonauts | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | offer | past | princes = prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | turn back not said to happen | to-infinitive | princes = prince not said here | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | guide | infinitive | princes = prince not said here | princes = prince | Colchis | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to colchis=Destination |
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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