Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 97
In this gold box I have a magic potion, which will do the dragon's business far more effectually than your sword."
Who acts: I, magic potion · What happens: have, do · To what, where: magic potion, gold box, business
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 (I, magic potion), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 box | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 box | det |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 box | compound |
| 4 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 potion | det |
| 8 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 potion | amod |
| 9 | potion | potion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 potion | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dragon | det |
| 15 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 business | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 dragon | case |
| 17 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | obj |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 effectually | advmod |
| 20 | effectually | effectually | ADV | _ | 23 sword | advmod |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 sword | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sword | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a magic potion | this gold box | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potion=Patient | |||
| 2 | do | future | a magic potion | the dragon's business | than your sword | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Eventuality |
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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