Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 88
With these words, she hobbled away, giving him a smile over her shoulder as she departed.
Who acts: blessing · What happens: hobble away, give, depart · To what, where: smile, man, shoulder
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 (blessing), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hobbled | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hobbled | nsubj |
| 6 | hobbled | hobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 hobbled | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hobbled | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 giving | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 smile | det |
| 12 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 giving | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 shoulder | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 giving | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 departed | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 departed | nsubj |
| 18 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 giving | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hobbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hobble away | past | blessing | with this words; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | gerund | blessing not said here | a smile | man | blessing's shoulder | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient smile=Theme | ||
| 3 | depart | past | blessing | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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