Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 33

In memory of this good deed, and as a token of his true heart, the fleece of the poor dead ram was miraculously changed to gold, and became one of the most beautiful objects ever seen on earth.

Who acts: memory · What happens: change, become, see · To what, where: fleece, memory, beautiful objects, earth

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 (memory), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 memory	case
2	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 became	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 deed	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 deed	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deed	amod
6	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 memory	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 changed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 changed	cc
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 token	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 token	det
11	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 changed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 heart	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 heart	nmod:poss
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 heart	amod
15	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 token	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 token	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fleece	det
18	fleece	fleece	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 changed	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 ram	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ram	det
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ram	amod
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ram	amod
23	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fleece	nmod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 changed	aux:pass
25	miraculously	miraculously	ADV	_	26 changed	advmod
26	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 memory	acl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 gold	case
28	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 changed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 became	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 became	cc
31	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 became	xcomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 objects	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 objects	det
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	36 beautiful	advmod
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 objects	amod
37	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 one	nmod
38	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	39 seen	advmod
39	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 objects	acl
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 earth	case
41	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seen	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past · passive	memory of this good deed not said here	the fleece of the poor dead ram			as a token of ram's true heart; to gold; miraculously property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	become	past					in memory of this good deed result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in memory=Result
3	see	participle		the beautiful objects not said here	earth	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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