Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 91

Upon my word, as the head came waving and undulating through the air, and reaching almost within arm's length of Prince Jason, it was a very hideous and uncomfortable sight.

Who acts: head, it, my · What happens: come, wave, undulate, reach, be, word · To what, where: air, length, hideous sight

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 (head, it, my), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 word	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 word	nmod:poss
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 head	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 word	conj
9	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 undulating	cc
11	undulating	undulate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 waving	conj
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 air	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 air	det
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 undulating	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sight	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sight	cc
17	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 sight	csubj
18	almost	almost	ADV	_	22 length	advmod
19	within	within	ADP	_	22 length	case
20	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 length	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 arm	case
22	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reaching	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Jason	case
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Jason	compound
25	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 length	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reaching	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sight	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sight	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 sight	det
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 hideous	advmod
31	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sight	amod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 uncomfortable	cc
33	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hideous	conj
34	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 word	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 word	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	the head			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wave	gerund	the head not said here			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	undulate	gerund	the head not said here		the air	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location
4	reach	gerund		arm's length of Prince Jason		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent length=Theme
5	is a	past	it	a hideous sight		tree rules
6	word		my			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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