Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 85
Well, he must have been wonderfully strong in his arms, to be sure.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: be · To what, where: arms
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), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 strong | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 strong | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 strong | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 strong | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 strong | cop |
| 7 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 8 strong | advmod |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 arms | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arms | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 strong | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sure | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | cop |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 strong | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must · perfect | Jason | Jason's arms | strong, wonderfully property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Jason not said here | sure property | tree rules |
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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