Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 14

"Do you know," asked King Aetes, eyeing Jason very sternly, "what are the conditions which you must fulfill before getting possession of the Golden Fleece?"

Who acts: King, you, conditions · What happens: know, ask, eye, be, fulfill, get · To what, where: King, Jason, conditions, possession, Golden Fleece · Speech: someone speaks here

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, you, conditions), 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	_	4 know	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 asked	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 asked	punct
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	conj
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 asked	iobj
9	Aetes	Aetes	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 King	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eyeing	punct
11	eyeing	eye	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 asked	advcl
12	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 eyeing	obj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 sternly	advmod
14	sternly	sternly	ADV	_	11 eyeing	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 conditions	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 conditions	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 conditions	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 conditions	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 conditions	det
20	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eyeing	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 fulfill	nsubj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 fulfill	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 fulfill	aux
24	fulfill	fulfill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 conditions	acl:relcl
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 getting	mark
26	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 fulfill	advcl
27	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 getting	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 Fleece	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Fleece	det
30	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Fleece	amod
31	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 possession	nmod
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present · do-support	King				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	ask speech: ask	past	you not said here		King		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
3	eye	gerund	you not said here	Jason		sternly property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jason=Stimulus
4	is a in a quote	present		the conditions			tree rules
5	fulfill in a quote	must	the conditions				vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	get in a quote	gerund	the conditions not said here	possession of the Golden Fleece			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer possession=Stimulus
7	possess in a quote			the Golden Fleece			nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient

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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