Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 33

Eustace put his bundle of manuscript into my hands; and I skimmed through it pretty rapidly, trying to find out its merits and demerits by the touch of my fingers, as a veteran story-teller ought to know how to do.

Who acts: Eustace, I, veteran story teller · What happens: put, skim, try, find out, know, do · To what, where: bundle, hands, manuscript, merits, fingers · 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 (Eustace, I, veteran story teller), 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	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bundle	nmod:poss
4	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 manuscript	case
6	manuscript	manuscript	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bundle	nmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 hands	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 skimmed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 skimmed	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 skimmed	nsubj
13	skimmed	skim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
14	through	through	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 skimmed	obl
16	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	17 rapidly	advmod
17	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	13 skimmed	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 trying	punct
19	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 skimmed	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 find	mark
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 trying	xcomp
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 find	compound:prt
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 merits	nmod:poss
24	merits	merit	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 find	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 demerits	cc
26	demerits	demerit	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 merits	conj
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 touch	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 touch	det
29	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 fingers	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 fingers	nmod:poss
32	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 touch	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 know	punct
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 know	mark
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 teller	det
36	veteran	veteran	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 teller	compound
37	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 teller	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 story	punct
39	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 know	nsubj
40	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 know	aux
41	to	to	PART	_	42 know	mark
42	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 skimmed	parataxis
43	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	45 do	advmod
44	to	to	PART	_	45 do	mark
45	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 know	ccomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	Eustace	Eustace's bundle of manuscript	my hands		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bundle=Goal
2	skim	past	I		manuscript	rapidly property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
3	try	gerund	I not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	find out not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	manuscript's merits and demerits		by the touch of my fingers	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merit=Topic
5	know	ought	a veteran story teller				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	touch			my fingers			nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient

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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