Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 28

When they had sailed above fifty miles over the sea, Lynceus happened to cast his sharp eyes behind, and said that there was this bad-hearted king, still perched upon the promontory, and scowling so gloomily that it looked like a black thunder-cloud in that quarter of the horizon.

Who acts: lungs, Lynceus, hearted king, promontory · What happens: sail, happen, cast, say, be, perch · To what, where: fifty miles, sea, sharp eyes, hearted king, promontory · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lungs, Lynceus, hearted king, promontory), 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	4 sailed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sailed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sailed	aux
4	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	above	above	ADV	_	6 fifty	advmod
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 miles	nummod
7	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sailed	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sailed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 happened	punct
12	Lynceus	Lynceus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 happened	nsubj
13	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sailed	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 cast	mark
15	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 happened	xcomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eyes	nmod:poss
17	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 eyes	amod
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cast	obj
19	behind	behind	ADV	_	15 cast	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 happened	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 was	mark
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 king	det
27	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hearted	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 bad	punct
29	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 king	amod
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 perched	punct
32	still	still	ADV	_	33 perched	advmod
33	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 king	acl
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 promontory	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 promontory	det
36	promontory	promontory	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 perched	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 scowling	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 scowling	cc
39	scowling	scowl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 said	advcl
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 gloomily	advmod
41	gloomily	gloomily	ADV	_	39 scowling	advmod
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 looked	mark
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 looked	nsubj
44	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 scowling	advcl
45	like	like	ADP	_	50 cloud	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 cloud	det
47	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 cloud	amod
48	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 cloud	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 thunder	punct
50	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 looked	obl
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 quarter	case
52	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 quarter	det
53	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 cloud	nmod
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 horizon	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 horizon	det
56	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 quarter	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past · perfect	lungs = lung	fifty miles	the sea			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mile=Theme over sea=Trajectory
2	happen	past	Lynceus					tree rules
3	cast	to-infinitive	Lynceus not said here	Orpheus's sharp eyes			behind property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Product
4	say speech: assert	past	Lynceus not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	be	past	this hearted king		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	perch	participle		this hearted king not said here	the promontory	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon promontory=Location
7	scowl	gerund	Lynceus not said here				gloomily property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	look	past	promontory				like a black thunder cloud in that quarter of the horizon	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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