Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 44

"You never would have succeeded in this business, young man," said he, "if my undutiful daughter Medea had not helped you with her enchantments.

Who acts: You, king, undutiful daughter, daughter · What happens: not succeed, say, not help, enchant · To what, where: business, you · 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 (You, king, undutiful daughter, daughter), 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	_	6 succeeded	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 succeeded	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 succeeded	advmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 succeeded	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 succeeded	aux
6	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 business	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 business	det
9	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 succeeded	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 business	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 succeeded	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 succeeded	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 helped	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 helped	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 helped	mark
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 daughter	nmod:poss
21	undutiful	undutiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 daughter	amod
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 helped	nsubj
23	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 daughter	appos
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 helped	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 helped	advmod
26	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	conj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 helped	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 enchantments	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 enchantments	nmod:poss
30	enchantments	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 helped	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not succeed in a quote	would · perfect	You		this business and young man		vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in business=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not help a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	my undutiful daughter	you		with daughter's enchantments	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary with enchantment=Theme
4	enchant in a quote		daughter				nom enchantment «feeling 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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