Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 81

His one eye was nothing but a circle of red flame.

Who acts: one eye · What happens: be · To what, where: nothing

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one eye), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eye	nmod:poss
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 eye	nummod
3	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nothing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nothing	cop
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 circle	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 circle	det
8	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nothing	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 flame	case
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flame	amod
11	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 circle	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Hercules's one eye	nothing					tree rules

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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