Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 99
While the man spoke he eyed Jason with great curiosity; for his garb was quite unlike that of the Iolchians, and it looked very odd to see a youth with a leopard's skin over his shoulders, and each hand grasping a spear.
Who acts: man, garb, it, hand · What happens: speak, eye, be, look, see, grasp · To what, where: Jason, Iolchians, youth, shoulders, spear · 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 (man, garb, it, hand), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 eyed | nsubj |
| 6 | eyed | eye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | ccomp |
| 7 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 eyed | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 curiosity | case |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 curiosity | amod |
| 10 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyed | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 that | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 that | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 garb | nmod:poss |
| 14 | garb | garb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 that | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 that | cop |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 that | advmod |
| 17 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 18 that | case |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 spoke | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Iolchians | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Iolchians | det |
| 21 | Iolchians | Iolchian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 that | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 looked | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 looked | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 looked | nsubj |
| 25 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Iolchians | acl:relcl |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 odd | advmod |
| 27 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 looked | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 see | mark |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 odd | xcomp |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 youth | det |
| 31 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 see | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 skin | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 leopard | det |
| 34 | leopard | leopard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 skin | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 leopard | case |
| 36 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 see | obl |
| 37 | over | over | ADP | _ | 39 shoulders | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 39 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 see | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 grasping | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 grasping | cc |
| 42 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 hand | det |
| 43 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 grasping | nsubj |
| 44 | grasping | grasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 looked | advcl |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 spear | det |
| 46 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 grasping | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | eye | past | man | Jason | with great curiosity | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jason=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | past | man's garb | for that; of the Iolchians | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | past | it | the Iolchians not said here | odd property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme iolchian=Attribute | |||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | a youth | man's shoulders | with a leopard's skin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | grasp | gerund | each hand | a spear | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spear=Stimulus |
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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