Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 37

Their mildness seemed unreal, and a mere freak; but their savage nature was as true as their teeth and claws.

Who acts: mildness, savage nature · What happens: seem, be · To what, where: mere freak

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mildness, savage nature), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mildness	nmod:poss
2	mildness	mildness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unreal	unreal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seemed	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 freak	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 freak	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 freak	det
8	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 freak	amod
9	freak	freak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 true	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 true	cc
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 nature	nmod:poss
13	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 nature	amod
14	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 true	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 true	cop
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 true	advmod
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seemed	parataxis
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 teeth	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 teeth	nmod:poss
20	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 true	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 claws	cc
22	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 teeth	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	beasts's mildness	a mere freak				unreal property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	beasts's savage nature					as beasts's teeth and claws; true property	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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