Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 3

And Orpheus (whose custom it was to set everything to music) began to harp and sing most gloriously, and made every mother's son of them feel as if nothing in this world were so delectable as to fight dragons, and nothing so truly honorable as to be eaten up at one mouthful, in case of the worst.

Who acts: custom, Orpheus, son, nothing · What happens: be, begin, harp, sing, make, feel · To what, where: dragons, one 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 (custom, Orpheus, son, nothing), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
2	Orpheus	Orpheus	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 began	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 custom	punct
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 custom	nmod:poss
5	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Orpheus	appos
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 set	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 set	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 set	mark
9	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 custom	acl:relcl
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 set	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 music	case
12	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 everything	nmod
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 custom	punct
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 harp	mark
16	harp	harp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sing	cc
18	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 harp	conj
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 gloriously	advmod
20	gloriously	gloriously	ADV	_	18 sing	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 began	conj
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 mother	det
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 son	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 mother	case
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 feel	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 son	nmod
30	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 made	parataxis
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 delectable	mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 delectable	mark
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	39 delectable	nsubj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 world	case
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nothing	nmod
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 delectable	cop
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 delectable	advmod
39	delectable	delectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 feel	advcl
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 fight	mark
41	to	to	PART	_	42 fight	mark
42	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 delectable	advcl
43	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 fight	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 nothing	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 nothing	cc
46	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 began	parataxis
47	so	so	ADV	_	49 honorable	advmod
48	truly	truly	ADV	_	49 honorable	advmod
49	honorable	honorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 nothing	amod
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 eaten	mark
51	to	to	PART	_	53 eaten	mark
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 eaten	aux:pass
53	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 honorable	advcl
54	up	up	ADP	_	53 eaten	compound:prt
55	at	at	ADP	_	57 mouthful	case
56	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	57 mouthful	nummod
57	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 eaten	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 case	punct
59	in	in	ADP	_	60 case	case
60	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	parataxis
61	of	of	ADP	_	63 worst	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 worst	det
63	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	60 case	appos
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	custom			set property	tree rules
2	begin	past	Orpheus				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	harp	to-infinitive	Orpheus not said here				tree rules
4	sing speech: express	infinitive	Orpheus not said here			gloriously property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	past	Orpheus not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	feel	present	every mother's son of comrades				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	is	past	nothing			delectable property	tree rules
8	fight	to-infinitive	nothing not said here	dragons			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Co-Agent
9	eat up	to-infinitive · passive	Orpheus not said here		one mouthful		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»

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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