Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 42

These old legends, so brimming over with everything that is most abhorrent to our Christianized moral sense some of them so hideous, others so melancholy and miserable, amid which the Greek tragedians sought their themes, and moulded them into the sternest forms of grief that ever the world saw; was such material the stuff that children's playthings should be made of!

Who acts: old legends, that, Greek tragedians, world, our · What happens: brim over, be, christianiz, seek, mould, see · To what, where: abhorrent, amid, themes, sternest forms, grief, such material

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 (old legends, that, Greek tragedians, world), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 legends	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 legends	amod
3	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 moulded	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brimming	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 brimming	advmod
6	brimming	brim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 legends	acl
7	over	over	ADV	_	6 brimming	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 everything	case
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 brimming	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 abhorrent	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 abhorrent	cop
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 abhorrent	advmod
13	abhorrent	abhorrent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 everything	appos
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 sense	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sense	nmod:poss
16	Christianized	christianiz	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 sense	amod
17	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sense	amod
18	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brimming	obl
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 sense	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 some	nmod
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 hideous	advmod
23	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 some	amod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 others	punct
25	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sense	conj
26	so	so	SCONJ	_	27 melancholy	case
27	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brimming	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 miserable	cc
29	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 melancholy	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 amid	punct
31	amid	amid	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 melancholy	conj
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 sought	obj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tragedians	det
34	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tragedians	amod
35	tragedians	tragedian	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 sought	nsubj
36	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 amid	acl:relcl
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 themes	nmod:poss
38	themes	theme	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 sought	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 moulded	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 moulded	cc
41	moulded	mould	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 moulded	obj
43	into	into	ADP	_	46 forms	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 forms	det
45	sternest	stern	ADJ	Degree=Sup	46 forms	amod
46	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 moulded	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 grief	case
48	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 forms	nmod
49	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 saw	obj
50	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	53 saw	advmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 world	det
52	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 saw	nsubj
53	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 grief	acl:relcl
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 material	punct
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 material	cop
56	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 material	amod
57	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 moulded	parataxis
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 stuff	det
59	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 material	appos
60	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	66 made	obj
61	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 playthings	nmod:poss
62	's	's	PART	_	61 children	case
63	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 made	nsubj:pass
64	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	66 made	aux
65	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	66 made	aux:pass
66	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 stuff	acl:relcl
67	of	of	ADP	_	66 made	obl
68	!	!	PUNCT	_	41 moulded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brim over	gerund	this old legends not said here				with everything; to our Christianized moral sense and others; so melancholy and amid; over property	tree rules
2	is a	present	that	abhorrent				tree rules
3	christianiz	participle						tree rules
4	seek	past	the Greek tragedians	amid				tree rules
5	mould	past	this old legends	themes = theme	the sternest forms of grief			tree rules
6	see	past	the world	grief		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
7	is a	past		such material				tree rules
8	make	should · passive		children's playthings				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary that=Product
9	sense		our					nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
10	form			grief				nom form «communication transitive»: 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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