Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 53

So she put a golden box into his hand, and directed him how to apply the perfumed unguent which it contained, and where to meet her at midnight.

Who acts: heart, perfumed unguent · What happens: put, direct, apply, perfume, contain, meet · To what, where: golden box, hand, image, perfumed unguent, heart

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 (heart, perfumed unguent), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 box	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 box	amod
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 hand	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 directed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 directed	cc
12	directed	direct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 directed	obj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 apply	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 apply	mark
16	apply	apply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 directed	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 unguent	det
18	perfumed	perfume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 unguent	amod
19	unguent	unguent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 apply	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 contained	nsubj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 contained	nsubj
22	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 unguent	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 meet	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 meet	cc
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 meet	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 meet	mark
27	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 put	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 meet	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 midnight	case
30	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 meet	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	put	past	heart	a golden box	image's hand		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent box=Goal
2	direct	past	heart not said here	image			tree rules
3	apply	to-infinitive	heart not said here	the perfumed unguent			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unguent=Theme
4	perfume	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	contain	past	the perfumed unguent				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
6	meet	to-infinitive	heart not said here	heart		midnight	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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