Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 36
"Your eyes look heavy, Prince Jason," observed the king; "you appear to have spent a sleepless night.
Who acts: eyes, Prince Jason, you · What happens: look, observe, appear, spend · To what, where: Prince Jason, king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (eyes, Prince Jason, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 look | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Jason | punct |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Jason | compound |
| 8 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 observed | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 observed | punct |
| 11 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Jason | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 observed | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 appear | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 appear | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 appear | nsubj |
| 17 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 spent | mark |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 spent | aux |
| 20 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 appear | ccomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 night | det |
| 22 | sleepless | sleepless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 night | amod |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spent | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | Your eyes | Prince Jason | heavy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | observe | past | Prince Jason not said here | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 3 | appear in a quote | present | you | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | spend in a quote | to-infinitive · perfect | you not said here | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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