Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 27
In the whole course of the king's reign, he had never been thrown into such a fright and agitation as by the spectacle of poor Jason's bare foot.
Who acts: spectacle · What happens: not throw · To what, where: king, whole course
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 (spectacle), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 course | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 course | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 course | amod |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thrown | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 reign | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reign | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 course | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 course | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thrown | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thrown | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 thrown | advmod |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 thrown | aux:pass |
| 15 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 fright | case |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 fright | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fright | det |
| 19 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thrown | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 agitation | cc |
| 21 | agitation | agitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fright | conj |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 thrown | advmod |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 spectacle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 spectacle | det |
| 25 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thrown | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 foot | case |
| 27 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Jason | amod |
| 28 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 foot | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Jason | case |
| 30 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 foot | amod |
| 31 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spectacle | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not throw | past · perfect · passive | the spectacle of poor Jason's bare foot | king | the whole course of the king's reign | into such fright and agitation result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer subject=Theme into fright=Result |
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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