Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 89

Whether the light of her beautiful brown eyes threw a glory round about her, or whatever the cause might be, Jason fancied that there was something very noble and majestic in her figure, after all, and that, though her gait seemed to be a rheumatic hobble, yet she moved with as much grace and dignity as any queen on earth.

Who acts: light, Jason, gait, blessing · What happens: throw, be, fancy, seem, move, light · To what, where: glory, whatever, rheumatic hobble, beautiful brown eyes

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 (light, Jason, gait, 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	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	9 threw	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 light	det
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threw	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eyes	amod
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eyes	amod
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 light	nmod
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fancied	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 glory	det
11	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threw	obj
12	round	round	ADV	_	9 threw	advmod
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 threw	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 whatever	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 whatever	cc
17	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 threw	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cause	det
19	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 be	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 be	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 whatever	cop
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 threw	punct
23	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 fancied	nsubj
24	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 was	mark
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 all	cop
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 was	nsubj
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 noble	advmod
30	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 something	amod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 majestic	cc
32	majestic	majestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 noble	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 figure	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 figure	nmod:poss
35	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 noble	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 all	punct
37	after	after	ADP	_	38 all	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 fancied	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 that	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 that	cc
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 fancied	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 seemed	punct
43	though	though	SCONJ	_	46 seemed	mark
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 gait	nmod:poss
45	gait	gait	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 seemed	nsubj
46	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fancied	parataxis
47	to	to	PART	_	51 hobble	mark
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 hobble	cop
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 hobble	det
50	rheumatic	rheumatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 hobble	amod
51	hobble	hobble	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 seemed	xcomp
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 moved	punct
53	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	55 moved	cc
54	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 moved	nsubj
55	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fancied	conj
56	with	with	ADP	_	59 grace	case
57	as	as	ADP	_	59 grace	case
58	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 grace	amod
59	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 moved	obl
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 dignity	cc
61	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 grace	conj
62	as	as	ADP	_	64 queen	case
63	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	64 queen	det
64	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 moved	obl
65	on	on	ADP	_	66 earth	case
66	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 queen	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the light of light's beautiful brown eyes	a glory	about blessing; round property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glory=Theme about she=Destination
2	is a	infinitive	the light of light's beautiful brown eyes not said here	whatever		tree rules
3	fancy	past	Jason			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	seem	past	blessing's gait			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive	blessing's gait not said here	a rheumatic hobble		tree rules
6	move	past	gait		with much grace and dignity; as any queen on earth	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	light			light's beautiful brown eyes		nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
8	figure		blessing			nom figure «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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