Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 35

As he had no reason to complain of the reception of that erudite work by the public, he was now disposed to retain me in a similar position with respect to the present volume, which he entitled TANGLEWOOD TALES.

Who acts: Mr. · What happens: have, complain, dispose, retain, entitle, receive · To what, where: reason, Mr., me, similar position, present volume, erudite work

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 (Mr.), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 disposed	advcl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 reason	det
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 complain	mark
7	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reason	acl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 reception	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 reception	det
10	reception	reception	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 complain	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 work	case
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 work	nsubj
13	erudite	erudite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 work	amod
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reception	nmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 public	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 public	det
17	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 complain	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 disposed	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 disposed	aux:pass
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 disposed	advmod
22	disposed	dispose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
23	to	to	PART	_	24 retain	mark
24	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 disposed	xcomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 retain	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 position	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 position	det
28	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 position	amod
29	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 retain	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 respect	case
31	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 position	nmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 volume	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 volume	det
34	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 volume	amod
35	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 retain	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 entitled	punct
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 entitled	obj
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 entitled	nsubj
39	entitled	entitle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 volume	acl:relcl
40	TANGLEWOOD	TANGLEWOOD	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 TALES	compound
41	TALES	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 entitled	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 disposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Mr.	no reason				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
2	complain speech: other	to-infinitive	Mr. not said here	no reason not said here			of the reception of erudite work; by the public	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dispose	past · passive		Mr.		now		tree rules
4	retain	to-infinitive		me	a similar position with respect		to the present volume	tree rules
5	entitle	past	Mr.	the present volume				tree rules
6	receive			erudite work				nom reception «communication 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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