Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 78

Indeed, it seemed as if there were something about the animal that bewitched people.

Who acts: it, animal · What happens: seem, be, bewitch · To what, where: something, people

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 (it, animal), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 seemed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 were	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 were	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 were	expl
8	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	advcl
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 were	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 animal	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 animal	det
12	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 something	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 bewitched	nsubj
14	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 animal	acl:relcl
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bewitched	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	it			indeed property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	be	past		something	there	about the animal	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot something=Theme
3	bewitch	past	the animal	people			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer

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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