Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 63
At the appointed hour you might again have seen Prince Jason and the Princess Medea, side by side, stealing through the streets of Colchis, on their way to the sacred grove, in the center of which the Golden Fleece was suspended to a tree.
Who acts: you · What happens: appoint, see, steal, suspend · To what, where: Prince Jason, streets, 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 (you), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 3 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hour | amod |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 seen | advmod |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seen | aux |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Jason | compound |
| 11 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Medea | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Medea | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Medea | compound |
| 15 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Jason | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 side | punct |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Jason | appos |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stealing | punct |
| 21 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 seen | advcl |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 streets | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 streets | det |
| 24 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stealing | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Colchis | case |
| 26 | Colchis | Colchis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 streets | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 way | punct |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 way | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 way | nmod:poss |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stealing | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 grove | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 grove | det |
| 33 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 grove | amod |
| 34 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 way | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 center | punct |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 center | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 center | det |
| 38 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stealing | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 which | case |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 suspended | obl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Fleece | det |
| 42 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Fleece | amod |
| 43 | Fleece | Fleece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 suspended | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 suspended | aux:pass |
| 45 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 center | acl:relcl |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 tree | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 tree | det |
| 48 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 suspended | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | see | might · perfect | you | Prince Jason and the Princess Medea | again; hour | by side | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||
| 3 | steal | gerund | you not said here | the streets of Colchis | on streets's way to the sacred grove; in the center | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Location | |||
| 4 | suspend | past · passive | the Golden Fleece | of the center; to a tree | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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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