Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 107

A little way before him, he beheld the old woman whom he had helped over the stream, with her peacock beside her.

Who acts: Jason · What happens: behold, help · To what, where: little way, old woman, stream

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jason), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 way	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 way	amod
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beheld	obl:unmarked
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 way	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 way	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 beheld	nsubj
8	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beheld	obj
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 helped	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 helped	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 helped	aux
15	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 woman	acl:relcl
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 stream	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stream	det
18	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 helped	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 peacock	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 peacock	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 peacock	nmod:poss
22	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 helped	conj
23	beside	beside	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 peacock	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behold	past	Jason	a little way before Jason					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
2	help	past · perfect	Jason		the old woman	the stream			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Beneficiary

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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