Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 11
Jason knew that it would be impossible to withstand this blood-thirsty battalion with his single arm, but determined, since there was nothing better to be done, to die as valiantly as if he himself had sprung from a dragon's tooth.
Who acts: Jason, nothing · What happens: know, be, withstand, do, die, spring · To what, where: thirsty battalion, Jason, tooth · Speech: someone speaks here
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, nothing), 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 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 impossible | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 impossible | expl |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 impossible | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 impossible | cop |
| 7 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 withstand | mark |
| 9 | withstand | withstand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 impossible | csubj |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 battalion | det |
| 11 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thirsty | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 blood | punct |
| 13 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 battalion | amod |
| 14 | battalion | battalion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 withstand | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 arm | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 arm | nmod:poss |
| 17 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 arm | amod |
| 18 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 battalion | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 determined | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 determined | cc |
| 21 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 impossible | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 was | punct |
| 23 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 25 was | mark |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 was | expl |
| 25 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 was | nsubj |
| 27 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 nothing | amod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 done | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 done | aux:pass |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 better | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 die | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 die | mark |
| 33 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knew | conj |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 valiantly | advmod |
| 35 | valiantly | valiantly | ADV | _ | 33 die | advmod |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 sprung | mark |
| 37 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 sprung | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 38 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 sprung | aux |
| 41 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 die | advcl |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 tooth | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 dragon | det |
| 44 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 tooth | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 dragon | case |
| 46 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sprung | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Jason | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | would | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | withstand | to-infinitive | this thirsty battalion | with Jason's single arm | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive · passive | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 7 | die | to-infinitive | Jason not said here | valiantly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 8 | spring | past · perfect · passive | Jason | a dragon's tooth | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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