Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 85
To say the truth, in the joy of beholding the object of his desires, the terrible dragon had quite slipped out of Jason's memory.
Who acts: joy, terrible dragon, object · What happens: say, behold, slip out, desire · To what, where: truth, joy, object, memory · 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 (joy, terrible dragon, object), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 say | mark |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 joy | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 joy | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 joy | det |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | obl |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 beholding | mark |
| 10 | beholding | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 joy | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 object | det |
| 12 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beholding | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 desires | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 desires | nmod:poss |
| 15 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 object | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 slipped | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dragon | det |
| 18 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dragon | amod |
| 19 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 slipped | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 slipped | aux |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 slipped | advmod |
| 22 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 joy | acl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 memory | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 memory | case |
| 25 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 memory | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Jason | case |
| 27 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 slipped | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | the truth | the joy | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent truth=Theme in joy=Manner | ||||
| 2 | behold | gerund | the joy not said here | the object of object's desires | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer object=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | slip out | past · perfect | the terrible dragon | Jason's memory | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent memory=Patient | ||||
| 4 | desire | object | nom desire «feeling transitive»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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