Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 52
The eyes of King Pelias sparkled with joy, therefore, when he heard Jason's reply.
Who acts: eyes, man, Jason · What happens: sparkle, hear, reply · To what, where: reply
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 (eyes, man, Jason), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eyes | det |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sparkled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Pelias | case |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Pelias | compound |
| 5 | Pelias | Pelias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 eyes | nmod |
| 6 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 joy | case |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sparkled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 therefore | punct |
| 10 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 sparkled | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 heard | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sparkled | conj |
| 15 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 reply | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Jason | case |
| 17 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sparkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sparkle | past | the eyes of King Pelias | with joy; therefore property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | man | Jason's reply | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reply=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | reply | Jason | nom reply «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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