Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 26

The world will always have simpletons enough, just like them, fighting and dying for they know not what, and fancying that posterity will take the trouble to put laurel wreaths on their rusty and battered helmets.

Who acts: world, ends, posterity · What happens: have, fight, die, not know, fancy, take · To what, where: simpletons, trouble, laurel wreaths, rusty battered helmets

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 (world, ends, posterity), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 world	det
2	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	simpletons	simpleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fighting	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	13 fighting	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fighting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fighting	punct
13	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 have	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dying	cc
15	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 fighting	conj
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 know	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
18	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 dying	advcl
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 know	advmod
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 know	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fancying	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fancying	cc
23	fancying	fancy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 fighting	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 take	mark
25	posterity	posterity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 take	aux
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 fancying	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 trouble	det
29	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 put	mark
31	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 take	advcl
32	laurel	laurel	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wreaths	compound
33	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 put	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	39 helmets	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 helmets	nmod:poss
36	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 helmets	amod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 battered	cc
38	battered	batter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 helmets	amod
39	helmets	helmet	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 put	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	future	the world	simpletons			always, enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent simpleton=Patient
2	fight	gerund				like ends = end		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	die	gerund						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	not know	present	ends = end					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	fancy	gerund						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	take	future	posterity	the trouble				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme
7	put	to-infinitive	posterity not said here	laurel wreaths	ends's rusty battered helmets			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme on helmet=Destination
8	batter	participle						vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: 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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