Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 82

As soon as this was done, however, he could not help looking rather despondently at his bare foot, with only a remnant of the golden string of the sandal clinging round his ankle.

Who acts: Oak, sandal · What happens: do, not help, look, cling · To what, where: this

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 (Oak, sandal), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 help	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 done	mark
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 done	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux:pass
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 help	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
8	however	however	ADV	_	6 done	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 help	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 help	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 help	advmod
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 help	xcomp
15	rather	rather	ADV	_	16 despondently	advmod
16	despondently	despondently	ADV	_	14 looking	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 foot	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 foot	nmod:poss
19	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 foot	amod
20	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 remnant	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 remnant	case
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 remnant	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 remnant	det
25	remnant	remnant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looking	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 string	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 string	det
28	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 string	amod
29	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 remnant	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 sandal	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sandal	det
32	sandal	sandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 string	nmod
33	clinging	cling	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 sandal	acl
34	round	round	ADP	_	36 ankle	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 ankle	nmod:poss
36	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 clinging	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		this	however property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	not help	could	Oak		soon property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	look not said to happen	gerund	Oak not said here		with a remnant of the golden string of the sandal; at Oak's bare foot; despondently property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme
4	cling	gerund	the sandal not said here		round Oak's ankle	vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=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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