Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 48

So harsh and ear-piercing it was, that you would have fancied a butcher was sticking his knife into each of their throats, or, at the very least, that somebody was pulling every hog by his funny little twist of a tail.

Who acts: you, butcher, somebody · What happens: be, pierce, fancy, stick, pull, twist · To what, where: enough, knife, each, hog, least, tail

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, butcher, somebody), 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	_	2 harsh	advmod
2	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 piercing	cc
4	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piercing	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ear	punct
6	piercing	pierce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 harsh	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 piercing	obj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 harsh	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fancied	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 fancied	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 fancied	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fancied	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 fancied	aux
14	fancied	fancy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 harsh	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 butcher	det
16	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sticking	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sticking	aux
18	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fancied	ccomp
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 knife	nmod:poss
20	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sticking	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	22 each	case
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 sticking	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 throats	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 throats	nmod:poss
25	throats	throat	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 each	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pulling	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 pulling	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 or	punct
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 least	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 least	det
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 least	advmod
32	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 pulling	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pulling	punct
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 somebody	det
35	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	37 pulling	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 pulling	aux
37	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fancied	advcl
38	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	39 hog	det
39	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pulling	obj
40	by	by	ADP	_	44 twist	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 twist	nmod:poss
42	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 twist	amod
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 twist	amod
44	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pulling	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 tail	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 tail	det
47	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 twist	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 harsh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				harsh property	tree rules
2	pierce	gerund		enough			vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	fancy	would · perfect	you				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	stick	past · progressive	a butcher	butcher's knife	each		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knife=Theme into each=Destination
5	pull	past · progressive	somebody	every hog	the least	by butcher's funny little twist of a tail	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hog=Theme at least=Asset
6	twist		butcher	a tail			nom twist «event transitive»: poss=agent 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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