Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 80
At the same time, however, they spoke as if it were very doubtful whether Jason would succeed in getting the Golden Fleece.
Who acts: princes, Fleece, Jason · What happens: speak, be, succeed, get · To what, where: Golden Fleece · 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, Fleece, Jason), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoke | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 spoke | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 spoke | nsubj |
| 9 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 doubtful | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 doubtful | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 doubtful | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 doubtful | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 doubtful | advmod |
| 15 | doubtful | doubtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spoke | advcl |
| 16 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 19 succeed | mark |
| 17 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 succeed | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 succeed | aux |
| 19 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 doubtful | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 getting | mark |
| 21 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 succeed | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Fleece | det |
| 23 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Fleece | amod |
| 24 | Fleece | Fleece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 getting | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | princes = prince | time | however property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | Fleece | doubtful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | succeed | would | Jason | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get | gerund | Jason not said here | the Golden Fleece | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fleece=Stimulus |
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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