Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 34
Jason looked round greatly surprised, for he did not know that anybody was near.
Who acts: Jason, anybody · What happens: look round, not know, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jason, anybody), 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 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 surprised | advmod |
| 5 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 near | mark |
| 13 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 near | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 near | cop |
| 15 | near | near | ADV | _ | 11 know | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | past | Jason | round, surprised property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | Jason | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | anybody | near property | tree rules |
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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