Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 70

But Jason had set his heart steadfastly on getting the Golden Fleece; and I positively doubt whether he would have gone back without it, even had he been certain of finding himself turned into a red-hot cinder, or a handful of white ashes, the instant he made a step farther.

Who acts: I, Jason · What happens: set, get, doubt, go back, have, be · To what, where: Jason, Golden Fleece, hot cinder, step · 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 (I, Jason), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 set	cc
2	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	aux
4	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heart	nmod:poss
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obj
7	steadfastly	steadfastly	ADV	_	4 set	advmod
8	on	on	SCONJ	_	9 getting	mark
9	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 set	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Fleece	det
11	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Fleece	amod
12	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 getting	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 doubt	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 doubt	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 doubt	nsubj
16	positively	positively	ADV	_	17 doubt	advmod
17	doubt	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 gone	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gone	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 gone	aux
22	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 doubt	advcl
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 gone	advmod
24	without	without	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gone	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
27	even	even	ADV	_	28 had	advmod
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 doubt	conj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 certain	nsubj
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 certain	cop
31	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 had	xcomp
32	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 finding	mark
33	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 certain	advcl
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 turned	nsubj
35	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 finding	ccomp
36	into	into	ADP	_	41 cinder	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 cinder	det
38	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 hot	amod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 red	punct
40	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 cinder	amod
41	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 turned	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 handful	punct
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 handful	cc
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 handful	det
45	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cinder	appos
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 ashes	case
47	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 ashes	amod
48	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 handful	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 instant	punct
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 instant	det
51	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cinder	appos
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 made	nsubj
53	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 instant	acl:relcl
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 step	det
55	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 made	obj
56	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	53 made	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past · perfect · passive		Jason		steadfastly property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme heart=Destination
2	get	gerund		the Golden Fleece			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fleece=Stimulus
3	doubt	present	I			positively property	vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	go back	would · perfect	Jason			without Fleece	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	have	past	I not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	participle	Jason			certain property	tree rules
7	find	gerund	Jason not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	turn	past	Jason		a hot cinder		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cinder=Trajectory
9	make	past	Jason	a step		far property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Product

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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