Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 41
King Aetes scowled, and looked very angry and excessively disturbed; for he knew that, in accordance with his kingly promise, he ought now to permit Jason to win the Fleece, if his courage and skill should enable him to do so.
Who acts: King, courage, Jason · What happens: scowl, look, disturb, know, permit, win · To what, where: that, accordance, Jason, Fleece
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 (King, courage, 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 scowled | nsubj |
| 2 | Aetes | Aetes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | scowled | scowl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scowled | conj |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 angry | advmod |
| 8 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looked | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 disturbed | cc |
| 10 | excessively | excessively | ADV | _ | 11 disturbed | advmod |
| 11 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 angry | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 knew | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scowled | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 knew | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 accordance | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 accordance | case |
| 19 | accordance | accordance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knew | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 promise | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 promise | nmod:poss |
| 22 | kingly | kingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 promise | amod |
| 23 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 accordance | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 permit | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 permit | nsubj |
| 26 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 permit | aux |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 permit | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 permit | mark |
| 29 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 knew | conj |
| 30 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 permit | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 win | mark |
| 32 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 permit | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Fleece | det |
| 34 | Fleece | fleece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 win | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 enable | punct |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 42 enable | mark |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 courage | nmod:poss |
| 38 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 enable | nsubj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 skill | cc |
| 40 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 courage | conj |
| 41 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 enable | aux |
| 42 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 permit | conj |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 enable | obj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 do | mark |
| 45 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 enable | xcomp |
| 46 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 do | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scowled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scowl | past | King | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | past | King not said here | angry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | disturb | participle | King not said here | excessively property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | know | past | king | that | accordance with king's kingly promise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | permit | ought | king | Jason | now | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jason=Theme | |||
| 6 | win | to-infinitive | king not said here | the Fleece | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | enable a condition, not said to happen | should | king's courage and skill | Jason | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | do | to-infinitive | Jason not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | promise | king | nom promise «communication 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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