Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 39
But it will require only the slightest exercise of magic to make the exterior conform to the hoggish disposition.
Who acts: form, exterior · What happens: require, make, conform, exercise · To what, where: slightest exercise, exterior, hoggish disposition, magic
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 (form, exterior), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 require | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 require | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 require | aux |
| 4 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 exercise | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 exercise | det |
| 7 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 exercise | amod |
| 8 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 require | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 magic | case |
| 10 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exercise | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 require | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 exterior | det |
| 14 | exterior | exterior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 15 | conform | conform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 make | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 disposition | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 disposition | det |
| 18 | hoggish | hoggish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 disposition | amod |
| 19 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 conform | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 require | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | future | form | the slightest exercise of magic | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme exercise=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | form not said here | the exterior | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | conform | infinitive | the exterior not said here | to the hoggish disposition goal | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent to disposition=Goal | ||||
| 4 | exercise | magic | nom exercise «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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