Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 88
On the left arm was a shield, and in its center appeared a lifelike representation of the head of Medusa with the snaky locks.
Who acts: center · What happens: be, appear, represent · To what, where: shield, left arm, lifelike representation, head
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 (center), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 arm | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 arm | det |
| 3 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 arm | amod |
| 4 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shield | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shield | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shield | det |
| 7 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 appeared | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 appeared | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 center | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 center | nmod:poss |
| 12 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | nsubj |
| 13 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shield | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 representation | det |
| 15 | lifelike | lifelike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 representation | amod |
| 16 | representation | representation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 head | det |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 representation | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Medusa | case |
| 21 | Medusa | Medusa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 head | nmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 locks | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 locks | det |
| 24 | snaky | snaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 locks | amod |
| 25 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 appeared | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shield | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a shield | the left arm | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | shield's center | a lifelike representation of the head of Medusa | with the snaky locks | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location representation=Theme | |||
| 3 | represent | the head of Medusa | nom representation «cognition transitive»: of=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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