Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 33

Your night's work has been well performed; and to-morrow you can inform King Aetes that the first part of your allotted task is fulfilled."

Who acts: you, night, your · What happens: perform, inform, allot, fulfil, work, task · To what, where: work, King Aetes, first part

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, night, your), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 night	nmod:poss
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 night	case
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 performed	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 performed	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 performed	aux:pass
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 performed	advmod
8	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 inform	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 inform	cc
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 morrow	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 to	punct
13	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 inform	obl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 inform	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 inform	aux
16	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 performed	parataxis
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Aetes	compound
18	Aetes	aete	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 inform	obj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 fulfilled	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 part	det
21	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 part	amod
22	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 task	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 task	nmod:poss
25	allotted	allot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 task	amod
26	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 part	nmod
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 fulfilled	aux:pass
28	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 inform	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 inform	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 inform	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	perform	present · perfect · passive		Your night's work	well property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	inform speech: other	can	you	King Aetes	to morrow	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent aete=Recipient
3	allot	participle				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	fulfil	present · passive		the first part of your allotted task		tree rules
5	work		Your night			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent
6	task		your			nom task «act transitive»: poss=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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