Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 31

True, the Golden Fleece may not be so valuable as you have thought it; but then there is nothing better in the world; and one must needs have an object, you know.

Who acts: Golden Fleece, you, nothing, one needs · What happens: not be, think, be, have, know · To what, where: Fleece, world, 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 (Golden Fleece, you, nothing, one needs), 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	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 valuable	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fleece	det
4	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Fleece	amod
5	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 valuable	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 valuable	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 valuable	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 valuable	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 valuable	advmod
10	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 thought	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 thought	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 thought	aux
14	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 valuable	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 better	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 is	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 is	advmod
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 is	expl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 better	cop
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 better	nsubj
22	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 True	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 world	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 world	det
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 better	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 have	cc
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 needs	nummod
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 needs	aux
30	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 have	nsubj
31	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	parataxis
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 object	det
33	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 know	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 know	nsubj
36	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 have	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	may	the Golden Fleece			valuable property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present · perfect	you	Fleece			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	is	present	nothing		the world	good property	tree rules
4	have	present	one needs	a object			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Patient
5	know	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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