Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 55

Methinks I see him yet, the hideous monster, scanning us with that great red eye, in the middle of his forehead, to single out the fattest.

Who acts: I, hideous monster · What happens: methinks, see, scan, single out · To what, where: Polyphemus, us, fattest

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hideous monster), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:1114): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Methinks	methinks	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Methinks	ccomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	obj
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	3 see	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 monster	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 monster	det
8	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 monster	amod
9	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 him	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 scanning	punct
11	scanning	scan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 monster	acl
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 scanning	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	17 eye	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 eye	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eye	amod
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eye	amod
17	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scanning	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 middle	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 middle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 middle	det
21	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eye	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 forehead	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 forehead	nmod:poss
24	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 middle	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 single	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 single	mark
27	single	single	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 scanning	advcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 single	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fattest	det
30	fattest	fat	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 single	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Methinks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	methinks	present					tree rules
2	see	present	I	Polyphemus	yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	scan	gerund	the hideous monster not said here	us		with that great red eye in the middle of Polyphemus's forehead	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
4	single out	to-infinitive	the hideous monster not said here	the fattest			tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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