Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 4
After this (being now under the guidance of the two princes, who were well acquainted with the way), they quickly sailed to Colchis.
Who acts: this, princes · What happens: be, acquaint, sail · To what, where: two princes, Colchis
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 (this, princes), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 8 guidance | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 guidance | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 guidance | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 guidance | cop |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 guidance | advmod |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 guidance | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 guidance | det |
| 8 | guidance | guidance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sailed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 princes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princes | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 princes | nummod |
| 12 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 guidance | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 acquainted | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 acquainted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 acquainted | aux:pass |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 acquainted | advmod |
| 17 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 princes | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 acquainted | obl |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 princes | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 guidance | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sailed | nsubj |
| 24 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 25 sailed | advmod |
| 25 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Colchis | case |
| 27 | Colchis | Colchis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 sailed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | this | after the guidance; now | of the two princes | tree rules | |||
| 2 | acquaint speech: other | past · passive | the two princes | with the way; well property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | sail | past | princes = prince | Colchis | quickly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to colchis=Trajectory |
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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