Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 71
He therefore let go Medea's hand, and walked boldly forward in the direction whither she had pointed.
Who acts: Jason, heart · What happens: let, go, walk, point · To what, where: hand, direction
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, heart), 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 let | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 5 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Medea | case |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 walked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 walked | cc |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | parataxis |
| 11 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 forward | advmod |
| 12 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 10 walked | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 direction | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 direction | det |
| 15 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obl |
| 16 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 pointed | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pointed | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pointed | aux |
| 19 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 direction | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | Jason | therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | Jason not said here | Medea's hand | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | the direction | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | point | past · perfect | heart | whither property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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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