Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 5
When the king of the country, whose name was Aetes, heard of their arrival, he instantly summoned Jason to court.
Who acts: name, king, Aetes, princes · What happens: be, hear, summon, name, arrive · To what, where: Aetes, Jason
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 (name, king, Aetes, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 country | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 country | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Aetes | punct |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Aetes | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Aetes | cop |
| 11 | Aetes | Aetes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 country | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Aetes | punct |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 summoned | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 arrival | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 16 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 summoned | nsubj |
| 19 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 20 summoned | advmod |
| 20 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 summoned | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 court | case |
| 23 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 summoned | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Aetes's name | Aetes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the king of the country | of princes's arrival | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of arrival=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | summon | past | king | Jason | to court; instantly property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jason=Recipient | |||
| 4 | name | Aetes | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | arrive | princes = prince | nom arrival «act 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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