Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 50
"If you are as brave as I think you, and as you have need to be," said Medea, "your own bold heart will teach you that there is but one way of dealing with a mad bull.
Who acts: you, Medea, own bold heart, one way · What happens: be, think, have, say, teach, deal · To what, where: you, need · 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 (you, Medea, own bold heart, one way), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 brave | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 brave | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 brave | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brave | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 brave | advmod |
| 6 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 said | ccomp |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 think | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 think | nsubj |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brave | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 think | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 think | parataxis |
| 16 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 be | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 need | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 brave | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 teach | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 teach | punct |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heart | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 heart | amod |
| 27 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 heart | amod |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 teach | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 teach | aux |
| 30 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | conj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 teach | iobj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 is | mark |
| 33 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 34 is | expl |
| 34 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 teach | advcl |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 way | cc |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 way | nummod |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 is | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 39 dealing | mark |
| 39 | dealing | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 way | acl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 bull | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 bull | det |
| 42 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 bull | amod |
| 43 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dealing | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Medea | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | you | need | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Medea | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | teach speech: other in a quote | future | your own bold heart | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | be in a quote | present | one way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | deal in a quote | gerund | one way not said here | with a mad bull | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bull=Theme |
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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