Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 106
Jason caught the fleece from the tree, and hurried through the grove, the deep shadows of which were illuminated as he passed by the golden glory of the precious object that he bore along.
Who acts: Jason, precious object · What happens: catch, hurry, illuminate, pass, bear, glory · To what, where: fleece, tree, grove, precious object
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jason, precious object), 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 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fleece | det |
| 4 | fleece | fleece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hurried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hurried | cc |
| 10 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 caught | parataxis |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 grove | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grove | det |
| 13 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hurried | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shadows | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shadows | det |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shadows | amod |
| 17 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grove | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 illuminated | obl |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 illuminated | aux:pass |
| 21 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 shadows | acl:relcl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 passed | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 passed | nsubj |
| 24 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 illuminated | advcl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 glory | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 glory | det |
| 27 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 glory | amod |
| 28 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 passed | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 object | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 object | det |
| 31 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 object | amod |
| 32 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 glory | nmod |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 bore | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 bore | nsubj |
| 35 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 object | acl:relcl |
| 36 | along | along | ADV | _ | 35 bore | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Jason | the fleece | the tree | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fleece=Theme from tree=Source | |||
| 2 | hurry | participle | the grove | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through grove=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | illuminate | past · passive | of the deep shadows | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | pass | past | Jason | by the golden glory of the precious object | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by glory=Location | ||||
| 5 | bear | past | Jason | the precious object not said here | along property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Patient | |||
| 6 | glory | the precious object | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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