Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 41
So, with a crafty and evil smile upon his face, he spoke as follows:
Who acts: man · What happens: speak, follow · 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 (man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 14 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 smile | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 smile | det |
| 5 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 smile | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 evil | cc |
| 7 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 crafty | conj |
| 8 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spoke | obl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smile | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 smile | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spoke | nsubj |
| 14 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 follows | mark |
| 16 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 spoke | advcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | man | with a crafty smile upon man's face | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with smile=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | follow | present | man not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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