Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 86

But (what was very strange) the carver found that his hand was guided by some unseen power, and by a skill beyond his own, and that his tools shaped out an image which he had never dreamed of.

Who acts: carver, unseen power · What happens: be, find, guide, shape out, not dream · To what, where: hand, tools, image · 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 (carver, unseen power), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 strange	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 strange	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strange	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 strange	advmod
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 found	parataxis
7	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 strange	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 carver	det
9	carver	carver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 guided	mark
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hand	nmod:poss
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 guided	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 guided	aux:pass
15	guided	guide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 found	ccomp
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 power	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 power	det
18	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 power	amod
19	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 guided	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 skill	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 skill	cc
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 skill	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 skill	det
24	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl
25	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	27 own	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 own	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 skill	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 shaped	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 shaped	cc
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 shaped	mark
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 tools	nmod:poss
32	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 shaped	nsubj:pass
33	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 found	advcl
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 shaped	compound:prt
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 image	det
36	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shaped	obj
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 dreamed	nsubj:pass
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 dreamed	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 dreamed	aux
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 dreamed	advmod
41	dreamed	dream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 image	acl:relcl
42	of	of	ADP	_	41 dreamed	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			strange property	tree rules
2	find	past	the carver		by a skill beyond carver's own	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	guide	past · passive	some unseen power	carver's hand		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	shape out	participle · passive		carver's tools		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary image=Product
5	not dream	past · perfect · passive		a image		vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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