Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 94
Jason answered only by drawing his sword, and making a step forward.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: answer, draw, make · To what, where: sword, step · 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), 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 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 drawing | advmod |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 drawing | mark |
| 5 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sword | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drawing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 making | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 making | cc |
| 10 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 drawing | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 step | det |
| 12 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 making | obj |
| 13 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 10 making | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Jason | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | draw | gerund | Jason's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | a step | forward property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset step=Product |
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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