Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 56

He then rejoined his comrades, and told them what had passed between the princess and himself, and warned them to be in readiness in case there might be need of their help.

Who acts: man, readiness, comrades · What happens: rejoin, tell, pass, warn, be, help · To what, where: comrades, readiness, 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 (man, readiness, comrades), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rejoined	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 rejoined	advmod
3	rejoined	rejoin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 comrades	nmod:poss
5	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rejoined	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rejoined	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 passed	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 passed	aux
12	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 told	ccomp
13	between	between	ADP	_	15 princess	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 passed	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 himself	cc
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 passed	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 warned	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 warned	cc
20	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rejoined	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 warned	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	25 readiness	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 readiness	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 readiness	case
25	readiness	readiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 need	nsubj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 case	case
27	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 readiness	nmod
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 be	expl
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 be	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 need	cop
31	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 warned	ccomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 help	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 help	nmod:poss
34	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 need	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rejoined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rejoin	past	man	man's comrades			then		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	man not said here		comrades = comrade				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	pass	past · perfect · passive						between the princess	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme between princess=Destination
4	warn speech: warn	past	man not said here		comrades = comrade				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	is	to-infinitive				readiness		in case	tree rules
6	is a	infinitive	readiness	need				of comrades's help	tree rules
7	help		comrades = comrade						nom help «act transitive»: 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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