Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 40
If Jason had been capable of fearing anything, he would have been afraid of making this young princess his enemy; for, beautiful as she now looked, she might, the very next instant, become as terrible as the dragon that kept watch over the Golden Fleece.
Who acts: Jason, woman, next instant, dragon · What happens: be, fear, make, look, become, keep · To what, where: anything, young princess, watch, Golden Fleece
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, woman, next instant, dragon), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 capable | mark |
| 2 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 capable | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 capable | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 capable | cop |
| 5 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 become | advcl |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 fearing | mark |
| 7 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 capable | advcl |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 fearing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 afraid | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 afraid | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 afraid | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 afraid | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 afraid | cop |
| 14 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 capable | conj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 making | mark |
| 16 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 afraid | advcl |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 princess | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 princess | amod |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 making | obj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 21 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 princess | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 beautiful | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 beautiful | case |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 beautiful | punct |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 capable | conj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 looked | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 looked | nsubj |
| 28 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 looked | advmod |
| 29 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 beautiful | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 might | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 might | nsubj |
| 32 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 capable | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 capable | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 instant | det |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 next | advmod |
| 36 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 instant | amod |
| 37 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 become | nsubj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 become | punct |
| 39 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 41 terrible | advmod |
| 41 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 become | xcomp |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 dragon | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 dragon | det |
| 44 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 terrible | obl |
| 45 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 kept | nsubj |
| 46 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 dragon | acl:relcl |
| 47 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 kept | obj |
| 48 | over | over | ADP | _ | 51 Fleece | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 Fleece | det |
| 50 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 Fleece | amod |
| 51 | Fleece | Fleece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 kept | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Jason | capable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fear | gerund | Jason not said here | anything | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | would · perfect | Jason | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | Jason not said here | this young princess Jason's enemy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset princess=Product | ||||
| 5 | be | Jason not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | look | past | woman | now | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | become | infinitive | the next instant | terrible property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | keep | past | the dragon | watch | the Golden Fleece | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over fleece=Location |
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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