Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 10
King Pelias, who sits on my father's throne (to which he has no more right than to the one on which your excellent majesty is now seated), has engaged to come down from it, and to give me his crown and sceptre, provided I bring him the Golden Fleece.
Who acts: King, I · What happens: sit, have, seat, engage, come down, give · To what, where: throne, more right, excellent majesty, majesty, crown, me
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, I), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sits | nsubj |
| 2 | Pelias | Pelias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sits | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 sits | nsubj |
| 5 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 throne | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 throne | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 father | case |
| 10 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sits | obl |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 has | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 has | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sits | conj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 right | det |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 right | amod |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 has | obj |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 right | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 seated | obl |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 26 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 majesty | amod |
| 27 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 seated | aux:pass |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 seated | advmod |
| 30 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 one | acl:relcl |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 seated | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 engaged | punct |
| 33 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 engaged | aux |
| 34 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 sits | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 come | mark |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 engaged | xcomp |
| 37 | down | down | ADV | _ | 36 come | advmod |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 come | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 give | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 give | cc |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 give | mark |
| 43 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 come | conj |
| 44 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 give | iobj |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 crown | nmod:poss |
| 46 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 give | obj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 sceptre | cc |
| 48 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 crown | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 provided | punct |
| 50 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 give | advcl |
| 51 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 bring | nsubj |
| 52 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 provided | xcomp |
| 53 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 bring | obj |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 Fleece | det |
| 55 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 Fleece | amod |
| 56 | Fleece | Fleece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 bring | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | King | my father's throne | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | present | king | no more right | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | ||||
| 3 | seat | present · passive | your excellent majesty | now | on the one | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | |||
| 4 | engage | present · perfect | King not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | come down | to-infinitive | King not said here | majesty | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | give | to-infinitive | King not said here | king's crown and sceptre | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient crown=Theme | |||
| 7 | provide | past | King not said here | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | bring | infinitive | I | the Golden Fleece | king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination fleece=Theme | |||
| 9 | crown | king | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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