Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 78
Jason went onward a few steps farther, and then stopped to gaze.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: go, stop, gaze
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), 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 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 steps | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 steps | amod |
| 6 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 farther | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stopped | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 stopped | advmod |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 gaze | mark |
| 13 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stopped | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Jason | far, onward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | Jason not said here | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | gaze | to-infinitive | Jason not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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