Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 19
For example, you must first tame my two brazen-footed and brazen-lunged bulls, which Vulcan, the wonderful blacksmith, made for me.
Who acts: you · What happens: tame, lunge, make · To what, where: two, wonderful blacksmith
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 (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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 example | case |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tame | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 tame | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 tame | aux |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 tame | advmod |
| 7 | tame | tame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 two | nmod:poss |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 tame | obj |
| 10 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 footed | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 brazen | punct |
| 12 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 two | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bulls | cc |
| 14 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lunged | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 brazen | punct |
| 16 | lunged | lunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 bulls | amod |
| 17 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 footed | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Vulcan | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 Vulcan | nsubj |
| 20 | Vulcan | Vulcan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bulls | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 blacksmith | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 blacksmith | det |
| 23 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 blacksmith | amod |
| 24 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Vulcan | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 blacksmith | acl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 made | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tame | must | you | my two | for example; first property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent two=Patient | |||
| 2 | lunge | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | participle | the wonderful blacksmith not said here | for me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary |
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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