Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 63
Standing beneath it, Jason looked up among the knotted branches and green leaves, and into the mysterious heart of the old tree, and spoke aloud, as if he were addressing some person who was hidden in the depths of the foliage.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: stand, look up, knot, speak, address, hide · To what, where: center, person, depths · 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), 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 | Standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 looked | advcl |
| 2 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Standing | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Standing | punct |
| 5 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 looked | compound:prt |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 branches | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 branches | det |
| 10 | knotted | knot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 branches | amod |
| 11 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looked | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leaves | cc |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 leaves | amod |
| 14 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 branches | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heart | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heart | cc |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heart | det |
| 19 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 heart | amod |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tree | amod |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heart | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 spoke | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 spoke | cc |
| 27 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | parataxis |
| 28 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 27 spoke | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 addressing | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 addressing | mark |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 addressing | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 addressing | nsubj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 addressing | aux |
| 34 | addressing | address | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 spoke | advcl |
| 35 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 person | det |
| 36 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 addressing | obj |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 hidden | aux:pass |
| 39 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 person | acl:relcl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 depths | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 depths | det |
| 42 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 hidden | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 foliage | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 foliage | det |
| 45 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 depths | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | Jason not said here | center | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath it=Location | ||||
| 2 | look up | past | Jason | among the knotted branches and green leaves | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among branch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | knot | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | aloud property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | address | past · progressive | Jason | some person | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Destination | ||||
| 6 | hide | past · passive | some person | the depths of the foliage | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in depth=Location |
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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