Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 39

She was one of those persons whose eyes are full of mystery; so that, while looking into them, you seem to see a very great way, as into a deep well, yet can never be certain whether you see into the farthest depths, or whether there be not something else hidden at the bottom.

Who acts: woman, eyes, you · What happens: be, look, seem, see, not be, hide · To what, where: one, great way, farthest depths, something, bottom

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 (woman, eyes, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	cop
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 persons	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 persons	det
6	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 full	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 full	cop
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 persons	acl:relcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 mystery	case
12	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 full	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 so	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	_	3 one	conj
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 so	fixed
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 so	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 looking	mark
18	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 seem	advcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looking	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 seem	nsubj
23	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 so	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 seem	xcomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 way	det
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 great	advmod
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 way	amod
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 well	punct
31	as	as	ADP	_	35 well	case
32	into	into	ADP	_	35 well	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 well	det
34	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 well	amod
35	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 certain	punct
37	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	41 certain	cc
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 certain	aux
39	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 certain	advmod
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 certain	cop
41	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 seem	conj
42	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	44 see	mark
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 see	nsubj
44	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 certain	advcl
45	into	into	ADP	_	48 depths	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 depths	det
47	farthest	far	ADJ	Degree=Sup	48 depths	amod
48	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 see	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 there	punct
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 there	cc
51	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	52 there	mark
52	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 see	advmod
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 something	cop
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 something	advmod
55	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	52 there	conj
56	else	else	ADV	_	55 something	advmod
57	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 something	acl
58	at	at	ADP	_	60 bottom	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 bottom	det
60	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 hidden	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	woman	one		of that persons	tree rules
2	is	present	eyes			of mystery; full property	tree rules
3	look	gerund	you not said here			into eyes = eye	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into they=Theme
4	seem	present	you				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	see	to-infinitive	you not said here	a great way		as a deep well	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus as well=Attribute
6	not is	can	you not said here			certain property	tree rules
7	see	present	you		the farthest depths; there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	not is a	infinitive	you not said here	something		else property	tree rules
9	hide	participle			the bottom		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/39/