Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 83
"You will get a handsomer pair of sandals by and by," said the old woman, with a kindly look out of her beautiful brown eyes. "
Who acts: You, old woman · What happens: get, say, look out · To what, where: handsomer pair, beautiful brown eyes · 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 (You, old woman), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pair | det |
| 6 | handsomer | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 pair | amod |
| 7 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sandals | case |
| 9 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pair | nmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 get | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 by | cc |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 by | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woman | amod |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 look | punct |
| 20 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 23 look | mark |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 look | det |
| 22 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 23 look | advmod |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 eyes | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 eyes | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 eyes | amod |
| 28 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 eyes | amod |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 look | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 look | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | future | You | a handsomer pair of sandals | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pair=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look out | infinitive | briskness's beautiful brown eyes | kindly 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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