Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 92

One of them (more brutal than his fellows, and the most notorious gormandizer in the crew) said such a cruel and wicked thing, that I wonder the mere thought did not turn him into a wild beast, in shape, as he already was in his nature.

Who acts: notorious gormandizer, I, mere · What happens: say, wonder, not turn, be · To what, where: bird, wild beast, nature · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (notorious gormandizer, I, mere), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 brutal	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 brutal	punct
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 brutal	advmod
6	brutal	brutal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 fellows	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fellows	nmod:poss
9	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 brutal	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gormandizer	det
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 notorious	advmod
14	notorious	notorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gormandizer	amod
15	gormandizer	gormandizer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 crew	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 crew	det
18	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gormandizer	nmod
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 crew	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brutal	conj
21	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	26 thing	det:predet
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 thing	det
23	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thing	amod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wicked	cc
25	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cruel	conj
26	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wonder	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 wonder	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 wonder	nsubj
30	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 mere	det
32	mere	mere	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 turn	nsubj
33	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 turn	aux
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 turn	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 turn	advmod
36	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wonder	ccomp
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 turn	obj
38	into	into	ADP	_	41 beast	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 beast	det
40	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 beast	amod
41	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 turn	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 shape	punct
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 shape	case
44	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 turn	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 nature	punct
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 nature	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 nature	nsubj
48	already	already	ADV	_	52 nature	advmod
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 nature	cop
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 nature	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 nature	nmod:poss
52	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 turn	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 brutal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the notorious gormandizer in the crew			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wonder speech: ask	present	I			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not turn	past · do-support	the mere	bird	a wild beast	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into beast=Trajectory
4	is	past	mere		mere's nature	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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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