Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 18

"It would, indeed," answered I. "The summer house itself, so airy and so broken, is like one of those old tales, imperfectly remembered; and these living branches of the Baldwin apple tree, thrusting so rudely in, are like your unwarrantable interpolations.

Who acts: I. · What happens: answer, break, be, remember, thrust · To what, where: living branches, old tales, unwarrantable interpolations · Speech: someone speaks here

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.), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 would	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 would	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 answered	aux
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 would	punct
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	3 would	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 would	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 house	punct
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
12	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	compound
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 I.	appos
14	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	13 house	nmod:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 airy	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 airy	advmod
17	airy	airy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 answered	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 broken	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 broken	advmod
20	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 airy	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 one	cop
23	like	like	ADP	_	24 one	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 airy	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 tales	case
26	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 tales	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tales	amod
28	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 remembered	punct
30	imperfectly	imperfectly	ADV	_	31 remembered	advmod
31	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 tales	acl:relcl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 branches	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 branches	cc
34	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	36 branches	det
35	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 branches	amod
36	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 answered	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	41 tree	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 tree	det
39	Baldwin	Baldwin	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 tree	compound
40	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tree	compound
41	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 branches	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 thrusting	punct
43	thrusting	thrust	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 answered	advcl
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 rudely	advmod
45	rudely	rudely	ADV	_	43 thrusting	advmod
46	in	in	ADP	_	52 interpolations	case
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 in	punct
48	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 interpolations	cop
49	like	like	ADP	_	52 interpolations	case
50	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 interpolations	nmod:poss
51	unwarrantable	unwarrantable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 interpolations	amod
52	interpolations	interpolation	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 thrusting	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	would	I.	this living branches of the Baldwin apple tree			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	break in a quote	participle	I. not said here				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	is in a quote	present	I. not said here			like one; of that old tales	tree rules
4	remember in a quote	participle		that old tales not said here		imperfectly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	thrust in a quote	gerund	I. not said here			rudely property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present			your unwarrantable interpolations		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.

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