Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 10

His heart, you will understand, was now so heavy that it seemed impossible, sometimes, to carry it any farther.

Who acts: you, heart, it · What happens: understand, be, seem, carry · To what, where: heart

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, heart, it), 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	2 heart	nmod:poss
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heavy	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 heart	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 understand	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 heart	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 heart	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heavy	cop
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 heavy	advmod
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 heavy	advmod
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 seemed	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seemed	nsubj
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heavy	advcl
15	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seemed	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 carry	punct
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 carry	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 carry	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 carry	mark
20	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 heavy	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 carry	obj
22	any	any	ADV	_	23 farther	advmod
23	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 carry	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	understand	future	you	mariner's heart not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus
2	is	past	mariner's heart		now	heavy property	tree rules
3	seem	past	it			impossible property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	carry	to-infinitive	mariner's heart not said here	heart		far, sometimes property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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