Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 54
"Only be brave," added she, "and before daybreak the brazen bulls shall be tamed."
Who acts: you · What happens: be, add, tame · To what, where: heart, brazen bulls · 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), 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 | _ | 4 brave | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 brave | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 brave | cop |
| 4 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brave | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 brave | punct |
| 7 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brave | conj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 added | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brave | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 brave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tamed | cc |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 daybreak | case |
| 13 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tamed | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bulls | det |
| 15 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bulls | amod |
| 16 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tamed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 tamed | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tamed | aux:pass |
| 19 | tamed | tame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 brave | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brave | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | imperative | you not said here | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | you not said here | heart | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tame in a quote | shall · passive | the brazen bulls | before daybreak | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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