Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 41

Yet, in spite of my experience of his free way of handling them, I did not quite see, I confess, how he could have obviated all the difficulties in the way of rendering them presentable to children.

Who acts: free way, I, endowment, way, my · What happens: handle, not see, confess, obviate, render, spite · To what, where: advantages, spite, way, experience, free way

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 (free way, I, endowment, way), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	20 see	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yet	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 spite	case
4	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 experience	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 experience	nmod:poss
7	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spite	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 way	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 way	nmod:poss
10	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 experience	nmod
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 handling	mark
13	handling	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 way	acl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 handling	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spite	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 see	advmod
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 see	advmod
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 confess	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 confess	nsubj
23	confess	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 see	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 obviated	punct
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 obviated	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 obviated	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 obviated	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 obviated	aux
29	obviated	obviate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 confess	conj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 difficulties	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 difficulties	det
32	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 obviated	obl:agent
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 way	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 way	det
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 obviated	obl
36	of	of	SCONJ	_	37 rendering	mark
37	rendering	render	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 way	acl
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 rendering	obj
39	presentable	presentable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 rendering	xcomp
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 children	case
41	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 presentable	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	handle	gerund	endowment's free way not said here	advantages = advantage			vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	not see	past · do-support	I		spite of my experience of endowment's free way		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	confess	present	I				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	obviate	could · perfect	endowment		the way		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	render	gerund	the way not said here	advantages = advantage		presentable property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	spite			my experience of endowment's free way			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
7	experience		my	endowment's free way			nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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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