Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 36

Not, as Eustace hinted, that there was any real necessity for my services as introducer, inasmuch as his own name had become established in some good degree of favor with the literary world.

Who acts: Eustace, real necessity, own name, my · What happens: not hint, be, become, establish, service, name · To what, where: good degree

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, real necessity, own name, my), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hinted	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Not	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 hinted	mark
4	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hinted	nsubj
5	hinted	hint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 was	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hinted	advcl
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 necessity	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 necessity	amod
12	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 services	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 services	nmod:poss
15	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 necessity	nmod
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 introducer	case
17	introducer	introducer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 services	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 inasmuch	punct
19	inasmuch	inasmuch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 introducer	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 become	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 name	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 name	amod
23	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 become	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 become	aux
25	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 was	advcl
26	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 become	xcomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 degree	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 degree	det
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 degree	amod
30	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 established	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 favor	case
32	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 degree	nmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 world	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
35	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 world	amod
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 established	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hinted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not hint speech: other	past	Eustace			vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	be	past	any real necessity for my services as introducer and inasmuch	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	past · perfect	Eustace's own name			tree rules
4	establish	participle	Eustace's own name not said here	some good degree of favor	with the literary world	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with world=Source
5	service		my		as introducer and inasmuch	nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent as=obl
6	name		Eustace			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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