Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 22
"I must encounter the peril," answered Jason, composedly, "since it stands in the way of my purpose."
Who acts: Jason, peril, my · What happens: encounter, answer, stand, purpose · To what, where: peril, way · 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 (Jason, peril, my), 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 encounter | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 encounter | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 encounter | aux |
| 4 | encounter | encounter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 peril | det |
| 6 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 encounter | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 encounter | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 encounter | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 encounter | parataxis |
| 10 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 composedly | punct |
| 12 | composedly | composedly | ADV | _ | 9 answered | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 composedly | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 composedly | punct |
| 15 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 17 stands | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stands | nsubj |
| 17 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 composedly | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stands | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 purpose | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 23 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 way | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 encounter | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 encounter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encounter in a quote | must | Jason | the peril | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Jason | composedly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | present | peril | the way of my purpose | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location | ||||
| 4 | purpose in a quote | my | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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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