Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 48

Thus the stories (not by any strained effort of the narrator's, but in harmony with their inherent germ) transform themselves, and re-assume the shapes which they might be supposed to possess in the pure childhood of the world.

Who acts: stories · What happens: strain, transform, re-assume, suppose, possess · To what, where: stories, shapes, pure childhood

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 (stories), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	23 transform	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stories	det
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 transform	nsubj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 effort	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 effort	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 effort	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 effort	det
8	strained	strain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 effort	amod
9	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stories	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 narrator	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 narrator	det
12	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 effort	nmod
13	's	's	PART	_	12 narrator	case
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 harmony	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 harmony	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 harmony	case
17	harmony	harmony	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 effort	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 germ	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 germ	nmod:poss
20	inherent	inherent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 germ	amod
21	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 harmony	nmod
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 effort	punct
23	transform	transform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 transform	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 re-assume	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 re-assume	cc
27	re-assume	re-assume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 transform	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 shapes	det
29	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 re-assume	obj
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 supposed	nsubj:pass
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 supposed	nsubj:pass
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 supposed	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 supposed	aux:pass
34	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 shapes	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 possess	mark
36	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 supposed	xcomp
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 childhood	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 childhood	det
39	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 childhood	amod
40	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 possess	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 world	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 world	det
43	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 childhood	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 transform	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strain	participle					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
2	transform	present	the stories	stories = story		thus property	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
3	re-assume	infinitive	the stories not said here	the shapes			tree rules
4	suppose	might · passive		the shapes			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
5	possess	to-infinitive			the pure childhood of the world		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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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