Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 27
Could you help smiling, Prince Jason, to see the self-conceit of that last fellow, just as he tumbled down?"
Who acts: you, Prince Jason, Jason · What happens: help, smile, see, tumble down · To what, where: Prince Jason, self conceit
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 (you, Prince Jason, 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 help | nsubj |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | smiling | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 help | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Jason | punct |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Jason | compound |
| 7 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 help | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 help | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 conceit | det |
| 12 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 conceit | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 self | punct |
| 14 | conceit | conceit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fellow | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 fellow | det |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fellow | amod |
| 18 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 conceit | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tumbled | punct |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 tumbled | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 tumbled | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tumbled | nsubj |
| 23 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | conj |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 tumbled | compound:prt |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | could | you | Prince Jason | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | Prince Jason not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | you not said here | the self conceit of that last fellow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conceit=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | tumble down | past | Jason | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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