Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 46
The objectionable characteristics seem to be a parasitical growth, having no essential connection with the original fable.
Who acts: objectionable characteristics · What happens: seem, be, have · To what, where: parasitical growth, essential connection
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 (objectionable characteristics), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 characteristics | det |
| 2 | objectionable | objectionable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 characteristics | amod |
| 3 | characteristics | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seem | nsubj |
| 4 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 growth | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 growth | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 growth | det |
| 8 | parasitical | parasitical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 growth | amod |
| 9 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seem | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 having | punct |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 seem | advcl |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 connection | det |
| 13 | essential | essential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 connection | amod |
| 14 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 having | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 fable | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fable | det |
| 17 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fable | amod |
| 18 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 having | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | the objectionable characteristics | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the objectionable characteristics not said here | a parasitical growth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | the objectionable characteristics not said here | no essential connection | with the original fable | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connection=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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