Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 96

Any farmer, on viewing it, would have said that Jason must wait weeks before the green blades would peep from among the clods, and whole months before the yellow grain would be ripened for the sickle.

Who acts: farmer, Jason, green blades · What happens: view, say, wait, peep, ripen · To what, where: farmer · 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 (farmer, Jason, green blades), 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	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 viewing	punct
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 viewing	mark
5	viewing	view	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 farmer	acl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 viewing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 farmer	punct
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 said	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	aux
10	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 wait	mark
12	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 wait	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 wait	aux
14	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
15	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wait	obl:unmarked
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 peep	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 blades	det
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 blades	amod
19	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 peep	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 peep	aux
21	peep	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wait	advcl
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 clods	case
23	among	among	ADP	_	25 clods	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 clods	det
25	clods	clod	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 peep	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 ripened	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 ripened	cc
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 months	amod
29	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 ripened	obl:unmarked
30	before	before	ADP	_	33 grain	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 grain	det
32	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 grain	amod
33	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 months	nmod
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 ripened	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 ripened	aux:pass
36	ripened	ripen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	conj
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 sickle	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sickle	det
39	sickle	sickle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ripened	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	view	gerund	any farmer not said here	farmer			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	would · perfect · passive		any farmer			tree rules
3	wait	must	Jason		week		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	peep	would	the green blades			from the clods	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from clod=Theme
5	ripen	would · passive			month	for the sickle	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»

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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