Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 1

Upon this, first one person, and then another, began to stare at Jason, and everybody seemed to be greatly struck with something in his aspect; though they turned their eyes much oftener towards his feet than to any other part of his figure.

Who acts: one person, everybody, they, person · What happens: begin, stare, seem, strike, turn, figure

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one person, everybody, they, person), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	6 person	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 person	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 person	punct
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 person	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 person	nummod
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 another	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 another	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 another	advmod
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 person	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 person	punct
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 stare	mark
14	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 Jason	case
16	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 stare	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seemed	cc
19	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	20 seemed	nsubj
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 began	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	24 struck	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 struck	aux:pass
23	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	24 struck	advmod
24	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 seemed	xcomp
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 something	case
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 struck	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 aspect	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 aspect	nmod:poss
29	aspect	aspect	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 something	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 turned	punct
31	though	though	SCONJ	_	33 turned	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 turned	nsubj
33	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seemed	conj
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 eyes	nmod:poss
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 oftener	nsubj
36	much	much	ADV	_	37 oftener	advmod
37	oftener	often	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 turned	xcomp
38	towards	towards	ADP	_	40 feet	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 feet	nmod:poss
40	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 oftener	obl
41	than	than	ADP	_	45 part	case
42	to	to	ADP	_	45 part	case
43	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	45 part	det
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 part	amod
45	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 oftener	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 figure	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 figure	nmod:poss
48	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 part	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	past	one person		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	stare	to-infinitive	one person not said here	at Jason	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at jason=Theme
3	seem	past	everybody		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	strike	to-infinitive · passive	everybody not said here	with something; greatly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: with something=Theme
5	turn	past	they	often property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	figure		person		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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