Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 6, sentence 1
As Jason drew near, he heard the Talking Image calling to him with more than ordinary eagerness, in its grave, sweet voice:
Who acts: Jason, Talking Image · What happens: draw, hear, call · To what, where: Talking Image, grave, Jason · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jason, Talking Image), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drew | mark |
| 2 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Image | det |
| 9 | Talking | Talking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Image | compound |
| 10 | Image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 11 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Image | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 calling | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 eagerness | case |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 18 eagerness | advmod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 more | fixed |
| 17 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eagerness | amod |
| 18 | eagerness | eagerness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 calling | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 grave | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 grave | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 grave | nmod:poss |
| 22 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 calling | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 voice | punct |
| 24 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 voice | amod |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grave | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Jason | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Jason | the Talking Image | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer image=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | the Talking Image not said here | eagerness's grave and sweet voice | Jason | with ordinary eagerness | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent grave=Topic to he=Recipient |
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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