Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 5, sentence 10

So he let them howl as much as they liked, but never troubled his head about them.

Who acts: Ulysses, hearts · What happens: let, howl, like, not trouble · To what, where: hearts, much, head

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ulysses, hearts), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 let	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	howl	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 howl	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 liked	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 liked	nsubj
10	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 much	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 troubled	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 troubled	cc
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 troubled	advmod
14	troubled	trouble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	parataxis
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 troubled	obj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 troubled	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	Ulysses	hearts = heart		tree rules
2	howl	infinitive	hearts = heart not said here	much		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent much=Theme
3	like	past	hearts = heart			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	not trouble	past		Ulysses's head	about hearts = heart	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus head=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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