Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 101
If Circe had never done anything worse, I really should not think her so very much to blame."
Who acts: Circe, I · What happens: not do, not think, blame · To what, where: anything, Circe
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 (Circe, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 done | mark |
| 2 | Circe | Circe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 done | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 done | advmod |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 think | advcl |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 done | obj |
| 7 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 anything | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 10 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 think | advmod |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 think | advmod |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 think | obj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 think | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 blame | mark |
| 19 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 much | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Circe | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | should | I | Circe | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | blame | to-infinitive | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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