Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 43
"I see them very plainly," remarked Lynceus, whose eyes, you know, were as far-sighted as a telescope. "
Who acts: Lynceus, you · What happens: see, remark, know, sight · To what, where: objects · 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 (Lynceus, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | obj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 plainly | advmod |
| 6 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 remarked | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 remarked | punct |
| 9 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 sighted | advcl |
| 10 | Lynceus | Lynceus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 remarked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eyes | punct |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Lynceus | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 remarked | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sighted | aux:pass |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 far | advmod |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 sighted | advmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 far | punct |
| 22 | sighted | sight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 see | parataxis |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 telescope | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 telescope | det |
| 25 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sighted | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | Lynceus and Lynceus and Lynceus's eyes's eyes = lynceus | objects = object | plainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | Lynceus and Lynceus and Lynceus's eyes's eyes | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | sight | past · passive | as a telescope; far property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP» |
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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