Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 106

To say the truth, there was a suspicious kind of a grunt in their voices, and, for a long time afterwards, they spoke gruffly, and were apt to set up a squeal.

Who acts: suspicious kind, troubles · What happens: say, be, speak, set up · To what, where: truth, squeal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (suspicious kind, troubles), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 say	mark
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 was	punct
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 say	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 kind	det
9	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kind	amod
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 grunt	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 grunt	det
13	grunt	grunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kind	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 voices	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 voices	nmod:poss
16	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grunt	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 time	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 time	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 time	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 time	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 time	det
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obl:unmarked
24	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	23 time	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 spoke	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 spoke	nsubj
27	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
28	gruffly	gruffly	ADV	_	27 spoke	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 apt	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 apt	cc
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 apt	cop
32	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 spoke	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 set	mark
34	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 apt	csubj
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 set	compound:prt
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 squeal	det
37	squeal	squeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 set	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		the truth		time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent truth=Topic
2	be	past	a suspicious kind of a grunt in troubles's voices		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	speak speech: other	past	troubles = trouble				gruffly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	troubles = trouble not said here				apt property	tree rules
5	set up	to-infinitive		a squeal				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient squeal=Result

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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