Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 15
"I have heard," rejoined the youth, "that a dragon lies beneath the tree on which the prize hangs, and that whoever approaches him runs the risk of being devoured at a mouthful."
Who acts: Jason, I, dragon, prize, whoever · What happens: hear, rejoin, lie, hang, approach, run · To what, where: youth, that, tree, prize, risk, mouthful
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 (Jason, I, dragon, prize), 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 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rejoined | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 rejoined | punct |
| 7 | rejoined | rejoin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rejoined | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rejoined | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 rejoined | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lies | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dragon | det |
| 14 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lies | nsubj |
| 15 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 rejoined | conj |
| 16 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lies | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 hangs | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prize | det |
| 22 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hangs | nsubj |
| 23 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 tree | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 runs | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 runs | cc |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 approaches | mark |
| 27 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 approaches | nsubj |
| 28 | approaches | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 runs | advcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 approaches | obj |
| 30 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 risk | det |
| 32 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 runs | obj |
| 33 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 35 devoured | mark |
| 34 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 devoured | aux:pass |
| 35 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 risk | acl |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 mouthful | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 mouthful | det |
| 38 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 devoured | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present · perfect | Jason | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | rejoin | past | I not said here | the youth | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lie in a quote | present | a dragon | that | beneath the tree | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme | |||
| 4 | hang in a quote | present | the prize | the tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location | ||||
| 5 | approach in a quote | present | whoever | prize | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | run in a quote | present | Jason not said here | the risk | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme risk=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | devour in a quote | gerund · passive | the risk not said here | a mouthful | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP» |
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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