Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 39

She seemed to know his name, you will observe; and, indeed, those great brown eyes looked as if they had a knowledge of everything, whether past or to come.

Who acts: schoolmaster, you, brown eyes, eyes, Jason · What happens: seem, know, observe, look, have, come · To what, where: name, knowledge

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, you, brown eyes, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 know	mark
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 name	nmod:poss
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 observe	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 observe	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 observe	aux
10	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 looked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 looked	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 and	punct
14	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	20 looked	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 indeed	punct
16	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 eyes	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 brown	amod
18	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 eyes	amod
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 looked	nsubj
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 looked	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 knowledge	det
26	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 everything	case
28	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 knowledge	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 past	punct
30	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	31 past	mark
31	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 had	parataxis
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 come	cc
33	to	to	PART	_	34 come	mark
34	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 past	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	schoolmaster			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	know	to-infinitive	schoolmaster not said here	Jason's name		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
3	observe	future	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	look	past	that brown eyes		indeed property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	have a condition, not said to happen	past	eyes = eye	a knowledge of everything		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient
6	come	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	name		Jason			nom name «communication 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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