Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 38
"That is already accomplished, may it please your majesty," replied Jason. "
Who acts: matter, Jason · What happens: accomplish, please, reply · To what, where: That, majesty · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (matter, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 accomplished | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 accomplished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 accomplished | aux:pass |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 accomplished | advmod |
| 5 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 please | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 accomplished | punct |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 please | aux |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 please | nsubj |
| 9 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 please | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 please | parataxis |
| 15 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 please | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 please | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accomplish in a quote | present · passive | That | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | please in a quote | may | matter | your majesty | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Jason | vn respond-113 «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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