Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 36
She looked very aged, and wrinkled, and infirm; and yet her eyes, which were as brown as those of an ox, were so extremely large and beautiful, that, when they were fixed on Jason's eyes, he could see nothing else but them.
Who acts: schoolmaster, eyes, Jason · What happens: look, wrinkle, infirm, be, fix, see · To what, where: eyes, nothing
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 (schoolmaster, eyes, Jason), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 aged | advmod |
| 4 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrinkled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wrinkled | cc |
| 7 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 looked | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 infirm | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 infirm | cc |
| 10 | infirm | infirm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wrinkled | ccomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 eyes | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eyes | cc |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 eyes | advmod |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brown | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 brown | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 brown | cop |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 brown | advmod |
| 20 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 those | case |
| 22 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 brown | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 ox | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 ox | det |
| 25 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 those | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 those | punct |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 large | cop |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 large | advmod |
| 29 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 30 large | advmod |
| 30 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 those | amod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 beautiful | cc |
| 32 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 large | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 those | punct |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 those | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 those | punct |
| 36 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 39 fixed | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 fixed | aux:pass |
| 39 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 those | acl |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 eyes | case |
| 41 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 42 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 41 Jason | case |
| 43 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 fixed | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 those | punct |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 see | nsubj |
| 46 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 see | aux |
| 47 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 those | acl:relcl |
| 48 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 47 see | obj |
| 49 | else | else | ADV | _ | 48 nothing | advmod |
| 50 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 51 them | cc |
| 51 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 those | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | schoolmaster | aged property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wrinkle | participle | schoolmaster not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | infirm | infinitive | schoolmaster not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | past | schoolmaster's eyes | as those; brown property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | extremely, large property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 7 | fix | past · passive | eyes = eye | Jason's eyes | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 8 | see | could | Jason | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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