Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 7

This woman (if woman it were) was by no means so beautiful as many of her sex; for her head, they tell me, was shaped very much like a dog's, and, by way of ornament, she wore a wreath of snakes around it.

Who acts: woman, leaves · What happens: mean, tell, shape, wear, sex · To what, where: me, wreath, glimpse · 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 (woman, leaves), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 means	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 woman	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 woman	mark
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woman	appos
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 were	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woman	acl:relcl
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 woman	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 woman	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 no	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 was	obl
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 beautiful	advmod
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 means	xcomp
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 many	case
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 beautiful	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 sex	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sex	nmod:poss
19	sex	sex	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 many	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tell	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 head	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tell	nsubj
26	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 means	parataxis
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 tell	iobj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 shaped	punct
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 shaped	aux:pass
30	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 tell	xcomp
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADV	_	30 shaped	advmod
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 dog	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 dog	det
35	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shaped	obl
36	's	's	PART	_	35 dog	case
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 wore	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 wore	cc
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 way	punct
40	by	by	ADP	_	41 way	case
41	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 wore	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 ornament	case
43	ornament	ornament	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 way	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 way	punct
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 wore	nsubj
46	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 shaped	parataxis
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 wreath	det
48	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 wore	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 snakes	case
50	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 wreath	nmod
51	around	around	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 wore	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	this woman				beautiful property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present	leaves = leaf		me		for woman's head	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	shape not said to happen	past · passive	leaves = leaf not said here				like a dog	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
4	wear	past	woman	a wreath of snakes		glimpse	by way of ornament	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wreath=Source
5	sex		woman					nom sex «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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