Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 87

When the work was finished, it turned out to be the figure of a beautiful woman, with a helmet on her head, from beneath which the long ringlets fell down upon her shoulders.

Who acts: it, long ringlets · What happens: finish, turn out, be, fall down · To what, where: work, figure, shoulders

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 (it, long ringlets), 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	5 finished	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 work	det
3	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finished	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	aux:pass
5	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 turned	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 finished	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 turned	nsubj
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 turned	compound:prt
10	to	to	PART	_	13 figure	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 figure	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 figure	det
13	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 woman	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 figure	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 helmet	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 helmet	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 helmet	det
21	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 helmet	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fell	punct
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 which	case
27	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 fell	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ringlets	det
30	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ringlets	amod
31	ringlets	ringlet	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fell	nsubj
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	conj
33	down	down	ADV	_	32 fell	advmod
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 shoulders	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 shoulders	nmod:poss
36	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fell	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · passive		the work			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
2	turn out	past	it			with a helmet on woman's head	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive		the figure		of a beautiful woman	tree rules
4	fall down	past	the long ringlets		woman's shoulders	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon shoulder=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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