Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 76
"Have you come so far to seek it," exclaimed Medea, "and do you not recognize the meed of all your toils and perils, when it glitters before your eyes?
Who acts: you, Medea, meed, your · What happens: come, seek, exclaim, not recognize, glitter, toil · To what, where: glimpse, meed, eyes · 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, Medea, meed, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:2250): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 far | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 come | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 seek | mark |
| 8 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seek | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 12 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | parataxis |
| 13 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognize | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognize | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 recognize | cc |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 recognize | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 recognize | nsubj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 recognize | advmod |
| 20 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 meed | det |
| 22 | meed | meed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 recognize | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 toils | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 toils | det:predet |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 toils | nmod:poss |
| 26 | toils | toil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 meed | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 perils | cc |
| 28 | perils | peril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 toils | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 glitters | punct |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 glitters | advmod |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 glitters | nsubj |
| 32 | glitters | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 recognize | advcl |
| 33 | before | before | ADP | _ | 35 eyes | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 35 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 glitters | obl |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · perfect | you | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | glimpse | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | Medea | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not recognize in a quote | present · do-support | you | the meed of your toils and perils | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meed=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | glitter in a quote | present | meed | your eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location | ||||
| 6 | toil in a quote | your | nom toil «act intransitive»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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