Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 43
When Jason saw the malice and wickedness which King Pelias could not prevent from gleaming out of his eyes, he probably guessed that the king had discovered what he came for, and that he intended to turn his own words against himself.
Who acts: Jason, King · What happens: see, not prevent, gleam, guess, discover, come · To what, where: malice, eyes, king, own words · 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 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 guessed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 malice | det |
| 5 | malice | malice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wickedness | cc |
| 7 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 malice | conj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 prevent | obj |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 prevent | nsubj |
| 10 | Pelias | Pelias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | flat |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 prevent | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 prevent | advmod |
| 13 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 malice | acl:relcl |
| 14 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 15 gleaming | mark |
| 15 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 prevent | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gleaming | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 guessed | nsubj |
| 22 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 23 guessed | advmod |
| 23 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 discovered | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 discovered | aux |
| 28 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 guessed | ccomp |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 discovered | obj |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 what | acl:relcl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 came | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 intended | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 intended | cc |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 intended | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 intended | nsubj |
| 37 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 guessed | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 turn | mark |
| 39 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 intended | xcomp |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 words | nmod:poss |
| 41 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 words | amod |
| 42 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 turn | obj |
| 43 | against | against | ADP | _ | 44 himself | case |
| 44 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 turn | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Jason | the malice and wickedness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer malice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not prevent | could | King | the malice and wickedness | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gleam | gerund | King not said here | Jason's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out eye=Location | ||||
| 4 | guess | past | Jason | probably property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | discover | past · perfect · passive | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come | past | Jason | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | intend | past | Jason | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | turn not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jason not said here | Jason's own words | against Jason | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 9 | word | Jason | nom word «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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