Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 94
The crowd was thickest towards the sea-shore; and in that direction, over the people's heads, Jason saw a wreath of smoke curling upward to the blue sky.
Who acts: crowd, Jason, smoke · What happens: be, see, curl · To what, where: wreath, direction, blue sky
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 (crowd, Jason, smoke), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crowd | det |
| 2 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thickest | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thickest | cop |
| 4 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 shore | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shore | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shore | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sea | punct |
| 9 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thickest | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 saw | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 direction | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 direction | det |
| 14 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heads | punct |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 heads | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 heads | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 people | case |
| 20 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 direction | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 direction | punct |
| 22 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thickest | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wreath | det |
| 25 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 smoke | case |
| 27 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wreath | nmod |
| 28 | curling | curl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 smoke | acl |
| 29 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 28 curling | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 sky | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sky | det |
| 32 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 sky | amod |
| 33 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 curling | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thickest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the crowd | towards the sea shore; thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Jason | a wreath of smoke | that direction and the people's heads | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wreath=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | curl | gerund | smoke not said here | the blue sky | upward property | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sky=Destination |
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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