Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 45

But Eustace told me that these myths were the most singular things in the world, and that he was invariably astonished, whenever he began to relate one, by the readiness with which it adapted itself to the childish purity of his auditors.

Who acts: Eustace, myths, world · What happens: tell, be, begin, relate, adapt · To what, where: me, singular things, world, one, childish purity · 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 (Eustace, myths, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 told	cc
2	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 things	mark
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 myths	det
7	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 things	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 things	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 things	det
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 singular	advmod
11	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 things	amod
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	ccomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 world	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 things	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 astonished	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 astonished	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 astonished	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 astonished	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 astonished	cop
21	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	22 astonished	advmod
22	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
24	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 began	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 began	nsubj
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 astonished	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 relate	mark
28	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 relate	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 readiness	punct
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 readiness	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 readiness	det
33	readiness	readiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 relate	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 which	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 adapted	obl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 adapted	nsubj
37	adapted	adapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 readiness	acl:relcl
38	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 adapted	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	42 purity	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 purity	det
41	childish	childish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 purity	amod
42	purity	purity	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 adapted	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 auditors	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 auditors	nmod:poss
45	auditors	auditor	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 purity	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Eustace		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is a	past	this myths	the singular things		the world		tree rules
3	is	past	Eustace				astonished, invariably property	tree rules
4	begin	past	Eustace				whenever property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	relate	to-infinitive	Eustace not said here	one			by the readiness	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
6	adapt	past	world	world			to the childish purity of Eustace's auditors goal; with the readiness	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient to purity=Goal

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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