Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 54
But he smiled at himself for fancying such a thing.
Who acts: thought · What happens: smile, fancy · To what, where: thing
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 (thought), 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 | _ | 3 smiled | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 smiled | nsubj |
| 3 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 smiled | obl |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 fancying | mark |
| 7 | fancying | fancy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 smiled | advcl |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 thing | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fancying | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | thought | at thought | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fancy | gerund | thought not said here | such thing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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