Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 86
"My young friends," quietly replied Jason, "I do not wonder that you think the dragon very terrible.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: reply, not wonder, think · To what, where: young friends, dragon · 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 (I, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nmod:poss |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friends | amod |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 replied | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friends | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 8 replied | advmod |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wonder | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wonder | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 wonder | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wonder | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 wonder | advmod |
| 15 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 think | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 think | nsubj |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wonder | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dragon | det |
| 20 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 think | obj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 terrible | advmod |
| 22 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 think | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle · passive | My young friends | quietly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not wonder speech: ask in a quote | present · do-support | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | you | the dragon | terrible property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dragon=Theme |
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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