Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 38
Gazing at Medea, he beheld a wonderful intelligence in her face.
Who acts: Medea · What happens: gaze, behold · To what, where: wonderful intelligence, face
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 (Medea), 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 | Gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 beheld | advcl |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 Medea | case |
| 3 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gazing | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gazing | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 beheld | nsubj |
| 6 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 intelligence | det |
| 8 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 intelligence | amod |
| 9 | intelligence | intelligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beheld | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beheld | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | gerund | Medea not said here | at Medea | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at medea=Theme | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | Medea | a wonderful intelligence | woman's face | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer intelligence=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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