Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 52

Her black eyes shone upon him with such a keen intelligence, that he felt as if there were a serpent peeping out of them; and, although she had done him so much service only the night before, he was by no means very certain that she would not do him an equally great mischief before sunset.

Who acts: black eyes, Jason, serpent, Medea · What happens: shine, feel, be, peep out, do, not do · To what, where: eyes, Jason · 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 (black eyes, Jason, serpent, Medea), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eyes	amod
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shone	nsubj
4	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shone	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 intelligence	case
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 intelligence	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 intelligence	det
10	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 intelligence	amod
11	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shone	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 felt	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 felt	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 felt	nsubj
15	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shone	conj
16	as	as	ADP	_	21 serpent	case
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 were	mark
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 were	expl
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 serpent	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 serpent	det
21	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 felt	obl
22	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 serpent	acl
23	out	out	ADP	_	25 them	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 peeping	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 done	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 done	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 and	punct
29	although	although	SCONJ	_	32 done	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 done	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 done	aux
32	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 shone	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 done	obj
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 much	advmod
35	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 service	amod
36	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 done	obj
37	only	only	ADV	_	39 night	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 night	det
39	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 done	obl:unmarked
40	before	before	ADV	_	32 done	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 means	punct
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 means	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 means	cop
44	by	by	SCONJ	_	46 means	mark
45	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	46 means	nsubj
46	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shone	parataxis
47	very	very	ADV	_	48 certain	advmod
48	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 means	xcomp
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 do	mark
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 do	nsubj
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 do	aux
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 do	advmod
53	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 certain	ccomp
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 do	obj
55	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 mischief	det
56	equally	equally	ADV	_	57 great	advmod
57	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 mischief	amod
58	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 do	obl:unmarked
59	before	before	ADP	_	60 sunset	case
60	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 do	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past	Medea's black eyes			upon Jason; with such keen intelligence	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
2	feel	past	Jason				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past				as a serpent	tree rules
4	peep out	gerund	a serpent not said here	eyes = eye			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	do	past · perfect	Medea	Jason	night	before property	tree rules
6	is	past	Jason			certain, mean property	tree rules
7	not do	would	Medea	Jason	sunset	a great mischief obl:unmarked	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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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