Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 4
It delighted me to receive Mr. Bright, for the first time, under a roof, though a very humble one, which I could really call my own.
Who acts: study, I · What happens: delight, receive, call · To what, where: me, Bright, roof, humble one · 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 (study, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | delighted | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 delighted | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 receive | mark |
| 5 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 delighted | advcl |
| 6 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bright | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Bright | Bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 receive | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 receive | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 roof | punct |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 roof | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 roof | det |
| 16 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 receive | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 one | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 humble | advmod |
| 21 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 one | amod |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 delighted | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 call | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 call | obj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 call | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 call | aux |
| 27 | really | really | ADV | _ | 28 call | advmod |
| 28 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 one | parataxis |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 own | nmod:poss |
| 30 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 call | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delight | past | study | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | study not said here | Bright Mr. | a roof | time | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bright=Theme under roof=Location | ||
| 3 | call | could | I | a humble one | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme own=Result |
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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