Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 3
He had now run up from Boston by the noon train, partly impelled by the friendly regard with which he is pleased to honor me, and partly, as I soon found, on a matter of literary business.
Who acts: remedy, I, literary business · What happens: run up, impel, be, honor, find, matter · To what, where: noon train, me, matter
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 (remedy, I, literary business), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 run | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 run | advmod |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 run | compound:prt |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Boston | case |
| 7 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 run | obl:agent |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 train | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 train | det |
| 10 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 train | compound |
| 11 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 run | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 impelled | punct |
| 13 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 14 impelled | advmod |
| 14 | impelled | impel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 train | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 regard | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 regard | det |
| 17 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 regard | amod |
| 18 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 impelled | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 pleased | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pleased | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 pleased | cop |
| 23 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 regard | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 honor | mark |
| 25 | honor | honor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 pleased | xcomp |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 honor | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 partly | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 partly | cc |
| 29 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 4 run | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 found | punct |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 found | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 found | nsubj |
| 33 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 found | advmod |
| 34 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 matter | punct |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 matter | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 matter | det |
| 38 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 found | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 business | case |
| 40 | literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 business | amod |
| 41 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 matter | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past · perfect | remedy | now | by the noon train; partly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by train=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | impel | participle | the noon train not said here | by the friendly regard; partly property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | remedy | with the friendly regard; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | honor | to-infinitive | remedy not said here | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | past | I | a matter of literary business | soon property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | matter | literary business | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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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