Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 64

My father and all his court delight in nothing so much as to see a stranger trying to yoke them, in order to come at the Golden Fleece.

Who acts: stranger, Cadmus · What happens: see, try, yoke, come, delight · To what, where: stranger, princesses, Golden Fleece, nothing

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 (stranger, Cadmus), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 delight	cc
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 delight	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 delight	nmod:poss
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 delight	compound
7	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 nothing	case
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 delight	nmod
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nothing	amod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 see	mark
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 much	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stranger	det
16	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obj
17	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 stranger	acl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 yoke	mark
19	yoke	yoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 trying	xcomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 yoke	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
22	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 come	mark
23	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 in	fixed
24	to	to	PART	_	25 come	mark
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 yoke	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 Fleece	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Fleece	det
28	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Fleece	amod
29	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		a stranger		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus
2	try	gerund	a stranger not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	yoke not said to happen	to-infinitive	a stranger not said here	princesses = princess		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination
4	come	to-infinitive	a stranger not said here		the Golden Fleece	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at fleece=Location
5	delight		Cadmus		nothing	nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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