Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 37

But the connection with myself, he was kind enough to say, had been highly agreeable; nor was he by any means desirous, as most people are, of kicking away the ladder that had perhaps helped him to reach his present elevation.

Who acts: connection, kind, most people, ladder, name · What happens: be, say, mean, kick away, have, help · To what, where: ladder, name, present elevation · 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 (connection, kind, most people, ladder), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 kind	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 connection	det
3	connection	connection	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kind	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 myself	case
5	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 connection	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 myself	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kind	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 kind	cop
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 means	nsubj
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 kind	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 say	mark
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 kind	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 agreeable	punct
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 agreeable	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 agreeable	cop
16	highly	highly	ADV	_	17 agreeable	advmod
17	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 say	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 was	punct
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 was	cc
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 means	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 means	nsubj
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 any	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 he	obl
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	desirous	desirous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 means	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 kicking	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 kicking	mark
28	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 kicking	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 kicking	aux
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 kicking	punct
32	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 kicking	mark
33	kicking	kick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 means	advcl
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 kicking	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ladder	det
36	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 kicking	obj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 ladder	acl:relcl
39	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	40 helped	advmod
40	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 had	ccomp
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 helped	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 reach	mark
43	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 helped	xcomp
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 elevation	nmod:poss
45	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 elevation	amod
46	elevation	elevation	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 reach	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the connection with myself		enough, kind property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the connection with myself not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past · perfect			agreeable, highly property	tree rules
4	mean	present	kind		desirous property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	kick away	present · progressive	most people	the ladder	away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ladder=Patient
6	have	past	the ladder			tree rules
7	help	past	the ladder not said here	name	perhaps property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
8	reach	to-infinitive	name not said here	name's present elevation		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent elevation=Theme
9	elevate		name			nom elevation «event 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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