Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 5

Nor did I fail (as is the custom of landed proprietors all about the world) to parade the poor fellow up and down over my half a dozen acres; secretly rejoicing, nevertheless, that the disarray of the inclement season, and particularly the six inches of snow then upon the ground, prevented him from observing the ragged neglect of soil and shrubbery into which the place had lapsed.

Who acts: I, disarray · What happens: fail, be, land, parade, rejoice, prevent · To what, where: poor fellow, dozen acres, Mr., ragged neglect, place, soil

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 (I, disarray), 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	Nor	nor	INTJ	_	4 fail	discourse
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fail	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fail	nsubj
4	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 custom	punct
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 custom	case
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 custom	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 custom	det
9	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fail	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 proprietors	case
11	landed	land	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 proprietors	amod
12	proprietors	proprietor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 custom	nmod
13	all	all	ADV	_	16 world	advmod
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 custom	conj
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 custom	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 parade	mark
19	parade	parade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fail	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fellow	det
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fellow	amod
22	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 parade	obj
23	up	up	ADV	_	19 parade	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 down	cc
25	down	down	ADV	_	23 up	conj
26	over	over	ADP	_	31 acres	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 acres	nmod:poss
28	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	31 acres	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 acres	det
30	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 acres	nummod
31	acres	acre	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 parade	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 rejoicing	punct
33	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	34 rejoicing	advmod
34	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fail	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 nevertheless	punct
36	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	34 rejoicing	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 prevented	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 prevented	mark
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 disarray	det
40	disarray	disarray	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 prevented	nsubj
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 season	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 season	det
43	inclement	inclement	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 season	compound
44	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 disarray	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 inches	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 inches	cc
47	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	50 inches	advmod
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 inches	det
49	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 inches	nummod
50	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 disarray	conj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 snow	case
52	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 inches	nmod
53	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 ground	advmod
54	upon	upon	ADP	_	56 ground	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 ground	det
56	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 disarray	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 disarray	punct
58	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fail	parataxis
59	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 prevented	obj
60	from	from	SCONJ	_	61 observing	mark
61	observing	observe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 prevented	advcl
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 neglect	det
63	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 neglect	amod
64	neglect	neglect	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 observing	obj
65	of	of	ADP	_	66 soil	case
66	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 neglect	nmod
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 shrubbery	cc
68	shrubbery	shrubbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 neglect	conj
69	into	into	ADP	_	70 which	case
70	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	74 lapsed	obl
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 place	det
72	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 lapsed	nsubj:pass
73	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	74 lapsed	aux
74	lapsed	lapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	61 observing	parataxis
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fail	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fail	past · do-support	I				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present				as the custom and the world; of landed proprietors	tree rules
3	land	participle					vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	parade	to-infinitive	I not said here	the poor fellow	my dozen acres		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme over acre=Trajectory
5	rejoice	gerund	I not said here			nevertheless, secretly property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	prevent	past	the disarray of the inclement season upon the ground and the six inches of snow	Mr.			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
7	observe	gerund	the disarray of the inclement season upon the ground and the six inches of snow not said here	the ragged neglect of soil and shrubbery			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent neglect=Topic
8	lapse	past · perfect · passive		the place			tree rules
9	neglect			soil			nom neglect «cognition 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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