Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 93
It will require greater magic, I trow, than it did to make swine of them."
Who acts: skill, I · What happens: require, trow, make · To what, where: greater magic, swine
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 (skill, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 require | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 require | aux |
| 3 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 magic | amod |
| 5 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 require | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 trow | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 trow | nsubj |
| 8 | trow | trow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 require | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 did | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 trow | conj |
| 15 | swine | swine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 swine | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 require | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 require | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | future | skill | greater magic | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme magic=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | trow | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | past · do-support | I not said here | swine of comrades | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset swine=Product |
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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