Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 13

It put him into the worst possible humor, therefore, to hear that the gallant Prince Jason, and forty-nine of the bravest young warriors of Greece, had come to Colchis with the sole purpose of taking away his chief treasure.

Who acts: Fleece, sole purpose, king · What happens: put, hear, come, take away, treasure · To what, where: king, worst possible humor, gallant Prince Jason, Colchis, chief treasure

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 (Fleece, sole purpose, king), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	8 humor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 humor	det
6	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 humor	amod
7	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 humor	amod
8	humor	humor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
10	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	13 hear	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hear	mark
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 put	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 Jason	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Jason	det
16	gallant	gallant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Jason	amod
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Jason	compound
18	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 hear	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 nine	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 nine	cc
21	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 nine	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 nine	punct
23	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 put	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 warriors	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 warriors	det
26	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 warriors	amod
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 warriors	amod
28	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 nine	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Greece	case
30	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 warriors	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
33	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 put	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 Colchis	case
35	Colchis	Colchis	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 come	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 purpose	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 purpose	det
38	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 purpose	amod
39	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	obl
40	of	of	SCONJ	_	41 taking	mark
41	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 purpose	acl
42	away	away	ADV	_	41 taking	advmod
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 treasure	nmod:poss
44	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 treasure	amod
45	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 taking	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	Fleece		king	the worst possible humor	forty nine of the bravest young warriors of Greece obl	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
2	hear	to-infinitive	Fleece not said here	the gallant Prince Jason			therefore property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	past · perfect	Fleece not said here			Colchis	with the sole purpose	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to colchis=Initial_Location
4	take away	gerund	the sole purpose not said here	king's chief treasure			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme
5	treasure		king					nom treasure «possession 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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