Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 11

I doubt whether Eustace did not internally pronounce the whole thing a bore, until I led him to my predecessor's little ruined, rustic summer house, midway on the hillside.

Who acts: I, Eustace, predecessor · What happens: doubt, not pronounce, lead, ruin · To what, where: whole thing, Eustace, predecessor, little

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Eustace, predecessor), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 doubt	nsubj
2	doubt	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	8 pronounce	mark
4	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 pronounce	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pronounce	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 pronounce	advmod
7	internally	internally	ADV	_	8 pronounce	advmod
8	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 doubt	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pronounce	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bore	det
13	bore	bore	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pronounce	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 led	punct
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 led	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 led	nsubj
17	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 doubt	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 led	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 predecessor	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 predecessor	nmod:poss
21	predecessor	predecessor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 led	obl
22	's	's	PART	_	21 predecessor	case
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ruined	obl:unmarked
24	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 predecessor	acl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 house	punct
26	rustic	rustic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 house	amod
27	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 house	compound
28	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 predecessor	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 midway	punct
30	midway	midway	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 predecessor	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 hillside	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hillside	det
33	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 midway	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 doubt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	doubt	present	I				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not pronounce	past · do-support	Eustace	the whole thing		internally property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme bore=Result
3	lead	past	I	Eustace	my predecessor and rustic summer house and midway on the hillside		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to predecessor=Destination
4	ruin	participle	my predecessor and rustic summer house and midway on the hillside not said here	little			vn destroy-44 «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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