Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 43

There they beheld a beautiful young man, with long, curling ringlets, which seemed to be made of golden sunbeams; his garments were like light summer clouds; and the expression of his face was so exceedingly vivid, that Hecate held her hands before her eyes, muttering that he ought to wear a black veil.

Who acts: eyes, ringlets, garments, expression, Hecate, man · What happens: behold, curl, seem, make, be, hold · To what, where: beautiful young man, ringlets, hands, eyes, black veil · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (eyes, ringlets, garments, expression), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 beheld	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beheld	nsubj
3	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beheld	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 long	case
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beheld	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 curling	punct
12	curling	curl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 beheld	advcl
13	ringlets	ringlet	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 curling	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ringlets	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	19 made	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 made	aux:pass
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 seemed	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 sunbeams	case
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sunbeams	amod
22	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 made	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 clouds	punct
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 garments	nmod:poss
25	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 clouds	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 clouds	cop
27	like	like	ADP	_	30 clouds	case
28	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 clouds	amod
29	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 clouds	compound
30	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 beheld	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 vivid	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 vivid	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 expression	det
34	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 vivid	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 face	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 face	nmod:poss
37	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 expression	nmod
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 vivid	cop
39	so	so	ADV	_	41 vivid	advmod
40	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	41 vivid	advmod
41	vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beheld	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 held	punct
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 held	mark
44	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 held	nsubj
45	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beheld	conj
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 hands	nmod:poss
47	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 held	obj
48	before	before	ADP	_	50 eyes	case
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 eyes	nmod:poss
50	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 held	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 muttering	punct
52	muttering	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 held	advcl
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 wear	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 wear	nsubj
55	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 wear	aux
56	to	to	PART	_	57 wear	mark
57	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 muttering	ccomp
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 veil	det
59	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 veil	amod
60	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 wear	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	behold	past	eyes = eye	a beautiful young man	there		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
2	curl	gerund	eyes = eye not said here	ringlets			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ringlet=Patient
3	seem	past	ringlets				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	make	to-infinitive · passive	ringlets not said here			of golden sunbeams	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
5	is	past	man's garments			like light summer clouds	tree rules
6	is	past	the expression of man's face			exceedingly, vivid property	tree rules
7	hold	past	Hecate	Hecate's hands	Hecate's eyes		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme before eye=Location
8	mutter speech: assert	gerund	Hecate not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	wear	ought	man	a black veil			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent veil=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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