Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 39
I was not insensible to the advantages of his proposal, and gladly assured him of my acceptance.
Who acts: I, verdure, my · What happens: not be, assure, propose, accept · To what, where: verdure
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 (I, verdure, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 insensible | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 insensible | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 insensible | advmod |
| 4 | insensible | insensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 advantages | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 advantages | det |
| 7 | advantages | advantage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 insensible | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 proposal | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 10 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 advantages | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 assured | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 assured | cc |
| 13 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 14 assured | advmod |
| 14 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 insensible | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 assured | iobj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 acceptance | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 acceptance | nmod:poss |
| 18 | acceptance | acceptance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assured | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 insensible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | I | to the advantages of verdure's proposal; insensible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assure | past | I not said here | verdure | of my acceptance; gladly property | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of acceptance=Topic | |||
| 3 | propose | verdure | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | accept | my | nom acceptance «cognition 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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