Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 57
And he forbids me to make any more attempts, and positively refuses to give up the Golden Fleece, whether I slay the dragon or no."
Who acts: Jason, positively, I · What happens: forbid, make, refuse, not give up, slay · To what, where: me, more attempts, Golden Fleece, dragon
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 (Jason, positively, I), 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 | _ | 3 forbids | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forbids | nsubj |
| 3 | forbids | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 forbids | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forbids | xcomp |
| 7 | any | any | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 attempts | amod |
| 9 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 refuses | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 refuses | cc |
| 12 | positively | positively | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 refuses | nsubj |
| 13 | refuses | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 forbids | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 give | mark |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 refuses | xcomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 give | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Fleece | det |
| 18 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Fleece | amod |
| 19 | Fleece | Fleece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 give | iobj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 slay | punct |
| 21 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 23 slay | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 slay | nsubj |
| 23 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 refuses | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dragon | det |
| 25 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slay | obj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 no. | cc |
| 27 | no. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 25 dragon | conj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 no. | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | present | Jason | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Jason not said here | more attempts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product | ||||
| 3 | refuse | present | positively | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not give up | to-infinitive | positively not said here | the Golden Fleece | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Source | ||||
| 5 | slay | present | I | the dragon or no. | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient |
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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