Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 49

But, remembering what the oracle had said, he only half uttered the words, and then mumbled the rest indistinctly; and from his confusion, people must have imagined that this handsome young man had lost his wits.

Who acts: oracle, people, this · What happens: remember, say, utter, mumble, imagine, man · To what, where: oracle, words, rest, confusion, handsome young man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (oracle, people, this), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 remembering	punct
3	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	csubj:pass
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 said	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oracle	det
6	oracle	oracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	aux
8	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 uttered	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 uttered	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 uttered	advmod
12	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 uttered	advmod
13	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 words	det
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 uttered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mumbled	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 mumbled	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 mumbled	advmod
19	mumbled	mumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 uttered	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rest	det
21	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mumbled	obj
22	indistinctly	indistinctly	ADV	_	19 mumbled	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 imagined	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 imagined	cc
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 confusion	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 confusion	nmod:poss
27	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 imagined	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 confusion	punct
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 imagined	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 imagined	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 imagined	aux
32	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 lost	mark
34	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 man	nsubj
35	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 man	amod
36	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 man	amod
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lost	nsubj:pass
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 lost	aux
39	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 imagined	advcl
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 wits	nmod:poss
41	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 lost	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	gerund						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the oracle				tree rules
3	utter speech: other	past	oracle	the words			half property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	mumble speech: other	past	oracle not said here	the rest		then	indistinctly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic
5	imagine	must · perfect	people		oracle's confusion			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	man		this					tree rules
7	lose	past · perfect · passive		handsome young man				tree rules
8	confuse		oracle					nom confusion «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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