Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 100

So you will not be surprised to hear that they have all taken the shapes of swine!

Who acts: you, gormandizers · What happens: not be, hear, take · To what, where: shapes

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (you, gormandizers), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 surprised	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 surprised	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 surprised	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 surprised	cop
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hear	mark
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 surprised	advcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 taken	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 taken	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 taken	aux
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 taken	advmod
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 hear	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shapes	det
15	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 taken	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 swine	case
17	swine	swine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shapes	nmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	future	you		surprised property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	take	present · perfect	gormandizers = gormandizer	the shapes of swine	all property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme

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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