Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 47

But brutes as they certainly were, they yet had enough of human nature in them to be shocked at their own hideousness; and still intending to groan, they uttered a viler grunt and squeal than before.

Who acts: ears · What happens: brute, be, have, shock, intend, groan · To what, where: enough, own hideousness, viler grunt

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 (ears), 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	_	2 brutes	cc
2	brutes	brute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 were	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 were	nsubj
5	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 were	advmod
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 were	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
9	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 had	advmod
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brutes	ccomp
11	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 had	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 nature	case
13	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 nature	amod
14	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 enough	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 nature	nmod
17	to	to	PART	_	19 shocked	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 shocked	aux:pass
19	shocked	shock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 them	acl
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 hideousness	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hideousness	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hideousness	amod
23	hideousness	hideousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shocked	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 intending	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 intending	cc
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 intending	advmod
27	intending	intend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 brutes	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 groan	mark
29	groan	groan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 intending	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 uttered	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 uttered	nsubj
32	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 intending	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 grunt	det
34	viler	vile	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 grunt	amod
35	grunt	grunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 uttered	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 squeal	cc
37	squeal	squeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 grunt	conj
38	than	than	ADP	_	39 before	case
39	before	before	ADV	_	32 uttered	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brutes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brute	present						tree rules
2	be	past	ears = ear				certainly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	ears = ear	enough		yet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient
4	shock	to-infinitive · passive	ears = ear not said here		ears's own hideousness			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
5	intend	gerund				still		vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	groan not said to happen	to-infinitive						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	utter speech: other	past	ears = ear	a viler grunt and squeal				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grunt=Topic

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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