Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 55
Will he give you the Golden Fleece, without any further risk or trouble?"
Who acts: king · What happens: give · To what, where: Golden 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), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fleece | det |
| 6 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Fleece | amod |
| 7 | Fleece | Fleece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 give | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 risk | punct |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 risk | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 risk | det |
| 11 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 risk | amod |
| 12 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | parataxis |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 trouble | cc |
| 14 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 risk | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 risk | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 risk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | king | the Golden Fleece | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient fleece=Theme |
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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