Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 86

But the secret of the matter was, that the brazen bulls were enchanted creatures, and that Jason had broken the spell of their fiery fierceness by his bold way of handling them.

Who acts: secret, Jason, bold way · What happens: enchant, be, break, handle, spell · To what, where: brazen bulls, enchanted creatures, spell, bulls, fiery fierceness

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 (secret, Jason, bold way), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 creatures	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 secret	det
3	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 creatures	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 matter	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 matter	det
6	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 secret	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 creatures	cop
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 creatures	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 enchanted	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bulls	det
11	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bulls	amod
12	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 enchanted	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 enchanted	aux:pass
14	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 creatures	amod
15	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 broken	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 broken	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 broken	mark
19	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 broken	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 broken	aux
21	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 creatures	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 spell	det
23	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 broken	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 fierceness	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 fierceness	nmod:poss
26	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fierceness	amod
27	fierceness	fierceness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spell	nmod
28	by	by	ADP	_	31 way	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 way	nmod:poss
30	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 way	amod
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 broken	obl
32	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 handling	mark
33	handling	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 way	acl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 handling	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 creatures	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enchant	past · passive		the brazen bulls		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the secret of the matter	enchanted creatures		tree rules
3	break	past · perfect	Jason	the spell of bulls's fiery fierceness	by Jason's bold way	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient
4	handle	gerund	Jason's bold way not said here	bulls = bull		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	spell			bulls's fiery fierceness		nom spell «state transitive»: of=patient

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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