Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 12
In spite of himself, the king's face twisted itself into an angry frown; for, above all things else in the world, he prized the Golden Fleece, and was even suspected of having done a very wicked act, in order to get it into his own possession.
Who acts: face, king · What happens: twist, prize, suspect, do, get, spite · To what, where: face, spite, Golden Fleece, wicked act, Fleece, own possession
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 (face, king), 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 spite | case |
| 2 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 twisted | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 himself | case |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 spite | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spite | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 twisted | nsubj |
| 10 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 twisted | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 frown | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 frown | det |
| 14 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 frown | amod |
| 15 | frown | frown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 twisted | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 things | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 things | case |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 for | punct |
| 19 | above | above | ADP | _ | 21 things | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 things | det |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 twisted | obl |
| 22 | else | else | ADV | _ | 21 things | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 things | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 prized | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 prized | nsubj |
| 28 | prized | prize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 twisted | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Fleece | det |
| 30 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Fleece | amod |
| 31 | Fleece | Fleece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 prized | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 suspected | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 suspected | cc |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 suspected | aux:pass |
| 35 | even | even | ADV | _ | 36 suspected | advmod |
| 36 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 twisted | parataxis |
| 37 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 39 done | mark |
| 38 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 done | aux |
| 39 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 suspected | xcomp |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 act | det |
| 41 | very | very | ADV | _ | 42 wicked | advmod |
| 42 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 act | amod |
| 43 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 done | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 get | punct |
| 45 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 48 get | mark |
| 46 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 in | fixed |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 get | mark |
| 48 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 suspected | conj |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 get | obj |
| 50 | into | into | ADP | _ | 53 possession | case |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 possession | nmod:poss |
| 52 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 possession | amod |
| 53 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 get | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 twisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | past | the king's face | face | spite of Colchis | into a angry frown; for all things in the world | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme in spite=Source into frown=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | prize | past | king | the Golden Fleece | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fleece=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | suspect | past · passive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | do | gerund · perfect | a wicked act | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | Fleece | king's own possession | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | spite | Colchis | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | possess | king | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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