Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 96

At first the spectators hardly knew whether to call them hogs or men, but by and by came to the conclusion that they rather resembled the latter.

Who acts: spectators · What happens: know, call, come, resemble · To what, where: spectators, conclusion, latter · 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 (spectators), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 knew	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spectators	det
4	spectators	spectator	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knew	nsubj
5	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	6 knew	advmod
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	9 call	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	9 call	mark
9	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 knew	xcomp
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 call	obj
11	hogs	hog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 call	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 men	cc
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hogs	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 came	case
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 by	cc
18	by	by	ADP	_	16 by	conj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 conclusion	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 conclusion	det
22	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 resembled	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 resembled	nsubj
25	rather	rather	ADV	_	26 resembled	advmod
26	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 latter	det
28	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 resembled	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	the spectators			hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	call	to-infinitive	the spectators not said here	spectators = spectator			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme hog=Result
3	come	past	the spectators not said here		the conclusion		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial_Location
4	resemble	past	spectators = spectator	the latter			tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/96/