Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 93
"Well, Jason," whispered Medea (for she was ill natured, as all enchantresses are, and wanted to make the bold youth tremble), "what do you think now of your prospect of winning the Golden Fleece?"
Who acts: Jason, enchantresses, you, prospect, your · What happens: whisper, nature, be, want, make, think · To what, where: Medea, bold youth tremble, prospect, Golden Fleece · 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 (Jason, enchantresses, you, prospect), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 whispered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 whispered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Jason | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
| 7 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 whispered | obj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 natured | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 natured | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 natured | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 natured | aux:pass |
| 13 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 natured | amod |
| 14 | natured | nature | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Medea | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 are | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 are | mark |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 enchantresses | det |
| 18 | enchantresses | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 are | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 natured | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wanted | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wanted | cc |
| 22 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 whispered | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 wanted | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tremble | det |
| 26 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tremble | amod |
| 27 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tremble | compound |
| 28 | tremble | tremble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 wanted | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 think | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 think | punct |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 think | obj |
| 33 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 think | aux |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 think | nsubj |
| 35 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 wanted | conj |
| 36 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 prospect | advmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 prospect | case |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 prospect | nmod:poss |
| 39 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 think | obj |
| 40 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 41 winning | mark |
| 41 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 prospect | acl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Fleece | det |
| 43 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 Fleece | amod |
| 44 | Fleece | Fleece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 winning | obj |
| 45 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: ask | past | Jason | Medea | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medea=Topic | ||||
| 2 | nature | past · passive | Medea | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | does | present | all enchantresses | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | want | past | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bold youth tremble | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tremble=Product | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | your prospect | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme prospect=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | win in a quote | gerund | your prospect not said here | the Golden Fleece | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | prospect in a quote | your | nom prospect «state 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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