Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 85

He was a tolerably good workman, and had already carved several figure-heads, in what he intended for feminine shapes, and looking pretty much like those which we see nowadays stuck up under a vessel's bowsprit, with great staring eyes, that never wink at the dash of the spray.

Who acts: carver · What happens: be, carve, intend, look, stick up, stare · To what, where: good workman, several figure heads, bowsprit, that, dash

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 (carver), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 workman	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 workman	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 workman	det
4	tolerably	tolerably	ADV	_	5 good	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 workman	amod
6	workman	workman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 carved	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 carved	cc
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 carved	aux
10	already	already	ADV	_	11 carved	advmod
11	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 workman	parataxis
12	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 heads	amod
13	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heads	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 figure	punct
15	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 carved	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 what	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 what	case
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 carved	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 intended	nsubj
20	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 what	acl:relcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 shapes	case
22	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 shapes	amod
23	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 intended	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 looking	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 looking	cc
26	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 carved	conj
27	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADV	_	26 looking	advmod
29	like	like	ADP	_	30 those	case
30	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 looking	obl
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 stuck	nsubj:pass
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 stuck	nsubj
33	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 stuck	aux
34	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	_	35 stuck	advmod
35	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 those	acl:relcl
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 stuck	compound:prt
37	under	under	ADP	_	41 bowsprit	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 vessel	det
39	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bowsprit	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 vessel	case
41	bowsprit	bowsprit	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stuck	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 eyes	punct
43	with	with	ADP	_	46 eyes	case
44	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 eyes	amod
45	staring	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 eyes	amod
46	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 stuck	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 wink	punct
48	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 wink	obj
49	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	50 wink	advmod
50	wink	wink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 eyes	conj
51	at	at	ADP	_	53 dash	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 dash	det
53	dash	dash	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 wink	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 spray	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 spray	det
56	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 dash	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 workman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	carver	a good workman			tree rules
2	carve	past · perfect		several figure heads	a good workman		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in what=Destination
3	intend	past	carver			for feminine shapes	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	look	gerund				like those	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	stick up	present · passive			a vessel's bowsprit	with great staring eyes; nowadays property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under bowsprit=Destination
6	stare	gerund					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
7	not wink	present		that	the dash of the spray		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

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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