---
title: He saw upon her Bright shining silver scales; He asked her what ’twa… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw upon her Bright shining silver scales; He asked her what ’twas that glittered? Who acts: husband, twas. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/13/129/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Kulóskap the master, and other Algonki…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/) / [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/13/) / 129

# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 129

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He saw upon her Bright shining silver scales; He asked her what ’twas that glittered?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** husband, twas · **What happens:** see, shine, ask, glitter · **To what, where:** twas, Said

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, twas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:13:129
# text = He saw upon her Bright shining silver scales; He asked her what ’twas that glittered?
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
14	’	'	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | husband |  |  |  |  | upon Said's Bright shining silver scales | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | husband | twas | Said |  |  | what *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **glitter** | past | twas |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/13/128/)
- next →: [sentence 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/13/130/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/13/)