Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 100
The first look that they gave at the upper world was a glare of wrath and defiance.
Who acts: helmets, first look · What happens: give, be · To what, where: first look, upper world, glare
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (helmets, first look), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 look | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 look | amod |
| 3 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glare | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 gave | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | acl:relcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 9 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 world | amod |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 glare | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 glare | det |
| 13 | glare | glare | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wrath | case |
| 15 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glare | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 defiance | cc |
| 17 | defiance | defiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glare | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 glare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | helmets = helmet | the first look not said here | the upper world | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent look=Theme at world=Asset | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the first look | a glare and defiance | of wrath | 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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