Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 59
Medea then led Jason down the palace steps, and through the silent streets of the city, and into the royal pasture ground, where the two brazen-footed bulls were kept.
Who acts: Medea · What happens: lead, keep · To what, where: Jason, royal pasture ground, two footed bulls
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 (Medea), 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 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 led | advmod |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 steps | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 steps | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 steps | compound |
| 8 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 led | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 streets | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 streets | cc |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 streets | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 streets | det |
| 13 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 streets | amod |
| 14 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 steps | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 streets | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ground | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ground | cc |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ground | det |
| 22 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ground | amod |
| 23 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ground | compound |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 kept | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 kept | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bulls | det |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 bulls | nummod |
| 29 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 footed | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 brazen | punct |
| 31 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 bulls | amod |
| 32 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 kept | aux:pass |
| 34 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 ground | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | Medea | Jason | the royal pasture ground | then | down the palace steps and the silent streets of the city | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jason=Theme down step=Destination | |
| 2 | keep | past · passive | the two footed bulls | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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