Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 16
"True," said the king, with a smile that did not look particularly good-natured. "
Who acts: king, smile · What happens: say, not look · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, smile), 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 | _ | 2 True | punct |
| 2 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 True | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 True | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 smile | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 smile | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 smile | det |
| 11 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 look | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 look | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 look | advmod |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 smile | acl:relcl |
| 16 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 19 natured | advmod |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 natured | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 good | punct |
| 19 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 look | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | with a smile | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not look | past · do-support | a smile | natured property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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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