Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 31
Well, Prince Jason," he continued, aloud, and as complaisantly as he could, "make yourself comfortable for to-day, and to-morrow morning, since you insist upon it, you shall try your skill at the plow."
Who acts: Jason, you · What happens: continue, make, insist, try · To what, where: yourself, skill, plow · 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, 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 continued | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Jason | compound |
| 4 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Well | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 continued | nsubj |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 aloud | punct |
| 10 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 8 continued | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 make | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 complaisantly | advmod |
| 14 | complaisantly | complaisantly | ADV | _ | 20 make | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 could | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 could | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 make | aux |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 could | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 continued | conj |
| 21 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 make | xcomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 to | punct |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 comfortable | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 morning | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 morning | cc |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 morrow | case |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 to | punct |
| 31 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 morning | compound |
| 32 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 insist | punct |
| 34 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 36 insist | mark |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 insist | nsubj |
| 36 | insist | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 continued | parataxis |
| 37 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 insist | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 try | punct |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 try | nsubj |
| 41 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 try | aux |
| 42 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 insist | conj |
| 43 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 skill | nmod:poss |
| 44 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 try | obj |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 47 plow | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 plow | det |
| 47 | plow | plow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 try | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue in a quote | past | Jason | morning | aloud property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | make | could | Jason not said here | yourself | comfortable, complaisantly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yourself=Product | |||
| 3 | insist speech: other | present | you | upon bargain | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | try | shall | you | your skill | the plow | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Eventuality |
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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