Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 43

And therefore, though he would gladly have seen Jason snapped up at a mouthful, he was resolved (and it was a very wrong thing of this wicked potentate) not to run any further risk of losing his beloved Fleece.

Who acts: king, Jason, mouthful, further risk · What happens: see, snap up, resolve, be, not run, lose · To what, where: mouthful, king, wrong thing, further risk, beloved 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, Jason, mouthful, further risk), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 snapped	cc
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	11 snapped	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 snapped	punct
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 seen	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seen	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux
7	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	9 seen	advmod
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 seen	aux
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 snapped	advcl
10	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 snapped	nsubj
11	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 snapped	compound:prt
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 mouthful	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mouthful	det
15	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 snapped	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 resolved	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 resolved	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 resolved	aux:pass
19	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 snapped	parataxis
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 thing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 thing	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thing	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 thing	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 thing	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 wrong	advmod
26	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 thing	amod
27	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 resolved	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 potentate	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 potentate	det
30	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 potentate	amod
31	potentate	potentate	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thing	nmod
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 thing	punct
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 run	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 run	mark
35	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 resolved	parataxis
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	38 risk	det
37	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 risk	amod
38	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 run	obj
39	of	of	SCONJ	_	40 losing	mark
40	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 risk	acl
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 Fleece	nmod:poss
42	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Fleece	amod
43	Fleece	fleece	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 losing	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 snapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	would · perfect	king			gladly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	snap up	past	Jason		a mouthful	therefore property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mouthful=Location
3	resolve	past · passive		king			tree rules
4	is a	past	mouthful	a wrong thing		of this wicked potentate	tree rules
5	not run	to-infinitive		any further risk			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme risk=Trajectory
6	lose	gerund	any further risk not said here	king's beloved Fleece			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Eventuality

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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