Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 80

There were about fifty of these unclean beasts in the whole herd; and though the greater part were hogs by birth and education, there was wonderfully little difference to be seen betwixt them and their new brethren, who had so recently worn the human shape.

Who acts: fifty, part hogs, new brethren · What happens: be about, be, see, have · To what, where: part hogs, little difference

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 (fifty, part hogs, new brethren), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 fifty	advmod
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 were	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 beasts	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 beasts	det
7	unclean	unclean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beasts	amod
8	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fifty	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 herd	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 herd	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 herd	amod
12	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beasts	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 hogs	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hogs	cc
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 hogs	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 part	det
17	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 part	amod
18	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hogs	compound
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hogs	cop
20	hogs	hog	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 difference	nsubj
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 birth	case
22	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hogs	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 education	cc
24	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 birth	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 difference	cop
28	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	29 little	advmod
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 difference	amod
30	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	33 seen	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 seen	aux:pass
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 difference	acl
34	betwixt	betwixt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 seen	xcomp
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 betwixt	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 brethren	cc
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 brethren	nmod:poss
38	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 brethren	amod
39	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seen	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 brethren	acl:relcl
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 recently	advmod
44	recently	recently	ADV	_	42 had	advmod
45	worn	worn	ADP	_	48 shape	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 shape	det
47	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 shape	amod
48	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be about	past	fifty of this unclean beasts in the whole herd		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		part hogs		by birth and education	tree rules
3	is a	past	part hogs	little difference			tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive · passive	fifty of this unclean beasts in the whole herd not said here			betwixt property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
5	have	past	birth's new brethren			worn the human shape; recently property	vn birth-28.2-1 «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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