Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 28

These thoughts made them all melancholy at times, but appeared to torment Cilix more than the rest of the party.

Who acts: thoughts · What happens: make, appear, torment · To what, where: mother, Cilix

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (thoughts), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 thoughts	det
2	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 melancholy	det
6	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 times	case
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 appeared	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 appeared	cc
11	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 torment	mark
13	torment	torment	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 appeared	xcomp
14	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 torment	obj
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 torment	obj
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 rest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rest	det
18	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 more	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 party	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 party	det
21	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rest	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	make	past	this thoughts	mother	time	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary melancholy=Product
2	appear	past	this thoughts not said here			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	torment	to-infinitive	this thoughts not said here	Cilix		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus cilix=Experiencer more=Result

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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