Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 18
When Jason said this, the king gave a quick startled glance down at his feet.
Who acts: Jason, king · What happens: say, give, startle · To what, where: this, quick startled glance, feet · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jason, king), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 glance | det |
| 10 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 glance | amod |
| 11 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 glance | amod |
| 12 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 glance | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 glance | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jason | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the king | a quick startled glance | Jason's feet | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent glance=Theme at foot=Asset | |||
| 3 | startle | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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