Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 35
Entering the presence chamber, he stood at the foot of the throne, and made a low obeisance.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: enter, stand, make · To what, where: presence chamber, foot, low obeisance
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 | Entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stood | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chamber | det |
| 3 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chamber | compound |
| 4 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Entering | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Entering | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 foot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 foot | det |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 throne | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 throne | det |
| 13 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 foot | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 obeisance | det |
| 18 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 obeisance | amod |
| 19 | obeisance | obeisance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | Jason not said here | the presence chamber | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Jason | the foot of the throne | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Jason not said here | a low obeisance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset obeisance=Product |
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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