Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 95
Jason had been looking straight into the face of the image when these words were spoken.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: look, speak · To what, where: words · 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 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 looking | aux |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 face | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 face | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 face | det |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 image | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 image | det |
| 11 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 face | nmod |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 spoken | mark |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 words | det |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 spoken | aux:pass |
| 16 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 looking | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect · progressive | Jason | into the face of the image | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past · passive | this words | tree rules |
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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