Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 38
And besides, there is such a glare of the sun about him, that he will quite blind my poor eyes, which I have almost wept away already."
Who acts: poor eyes · What happens: be, weep away · To what, where: glare
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor eyes), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 glare | cc |
| 2 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 5 is | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 besides | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 glare | cop |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 glare | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 glare | det |
| 8 | glare | glare | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sun | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glare | nmod |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sun | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 blind | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 blind | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 blind | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 blind | aux |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 blind | advmod |
| 19 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 glare | parataxis |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eyes | amod |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 wept | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wept | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 wept | obj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 wept | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 wept | aux |
| 27 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 28 wept | advmod |
| 28 | wept | weep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 blind | advcl |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 wept | advmod |
| 30 | already | already | ADV | _ | 28 wept | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 glare | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 glare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | such glare | of the sun about man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weep away | present · perfect | my poor eyes | almost, away property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent which=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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