Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 99

When once it fastens itself into a person's character, it is very difficult getting rid of it.

Who acts: quality · What happens: fasten, be, get · To what, where: quality

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 (quality), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 fastens	advmod
2	once	once	SCONJ	_	4 fastens	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fastens	nsubj
4	fastens	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 difficult	advcl
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 fastens	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	10 character	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 person	det
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 character	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 person	case
10	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fastens	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 difficult	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 difficult	expl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 difficult	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 difficult	advmod
15	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 difficult	advcl
17	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 getting	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rid	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 difficult	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fasten	present	quality	quality	into a person's character	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient into character=Co-Patient
2	is	present			difficult property	tree rules
3	get	gerund			rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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