Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 85
When the five workmen beheld the dome, with the morning sunshine making it look golden and glorious, they gave a great shout.
Who acts: five workmen, morning sunshine, palace, workmen · What happens: behold, make, look, give · To what, where: dome, palace, great shout
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (five workmen, morning sunshine, palace, workmen), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 beheld | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 workmen | det |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 workmen | nummod |
| 4 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beheld | nsubj |
| 5 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gave | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dome | det |
| 7 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beheld | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 making | punct |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 making | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sunshine | det |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sunshine | compound |
| 12 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 making | nsubj |
| 13 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 beheld | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 making | obj |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 making | xcomp |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 look | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 glorious | cc |
| 18 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 golden | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beheld | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | nsubj |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 shout | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shout | amod |
| 24 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | the five workmen | the dome | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dome=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | the morning sunshine | palace | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | palace not said here | golden property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | give | past | workmen = workman | a great shout | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Theme |
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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