Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 2

And how it would have rejoiced any great captain, who was bent on conquering the world, like Alexander or Napoleon, to raise a crop of armed soldiers as easily as Jason did!

Who acts: Jason · What happens: rejoice, bend, conquer, raise, do · To what, where: nature, great captain, world, crop

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 rejoiced	cc
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 rejoiced	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rejoiced	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 rejoiced	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 rejoiced	aux
6	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 captain	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 captain	amod
9	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rejoiced	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bent	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 bent	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bent	aux:pass
13	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 captain	acl:relcl
14	on	on	SCONJ	_	15 conquering	mark
15	conquering	conquer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 bent	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 conquering	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Alexander	punct
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 Alexander	case
20	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 bent	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 Napoleon	cc
22	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Alexander	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 raise	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 raise	mark
25	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 rejoiced	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 crop	det
27	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 raise	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 soldiers	case
29	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 soldiers	amod
30	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 crop	nmod
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 easily	advmod
32	easily	easily	ADV	_	25 raise	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 did	mark
34	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 did	nsubj
35	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 raise	advcl
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 rejoiced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rejoice	would · perfect · passive		nature		tree rules
2	bend	past · passive		any great captain	like Alexander or Napoleon	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material
3	conquer	gerund		the world		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Patient
4	raise	to-infinitive		a crop of armed soldiers	easily property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Theme
5	do	past	Jason			vn act-114-1 «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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