Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 68
"Are you sure, beautiful Medea," asked Jason, "quite sure, that the unguent in the gold box will prove a remedy against those terrible burns?"
Who acts: Jason, unguent · What happens: be, ask, prove · To what, where: Jason, remedy · 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 (Jason, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Medea | punct |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Medea | amod |
| 7 | Medea | medea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sure | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | parataxis |
| 11 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 sure | advmod |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 prove | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 prove | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 unguent | det |
| 19 | unguent | unguent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 prove | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 box | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 box | det |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 box | compound |
| 23 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 unguent | nmod |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 prove | aux |
| 25 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 remedy | det |
| 27 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 prove | obj |
| 28 | against | against | ADP | _ | 31 burns | case |
| 29 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 burns | nsubj |
| 30 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 burns | amod |
| 31 | burns | burn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 prove | obl |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Jason | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Jason | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jason=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | prove in a quote | future | the unguent in the gold box | a remedy | against terrible burns | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remedy=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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