Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 50

Evil had never yet existed; and sorrow, misfortune, crime, were mere shadows which the mind fancifully created for itself, as a shelter against too sunny realities; or, at most, but prophetic dreams to which the dreamer himself did not yield a waking credence.

Who acts: mind, dreamer · What happens: not exist, be, create, not yield, wake · To what, where: Evil, most, mere shadows, waking credence, prophetic dreams

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 (mind, dreamer), 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	Evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 existed	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 existed	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 existed	advmod
4	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 existed	advmod
5	existed	exist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 sorrow	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sorrow	cc
8	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 existed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 misfortune	punct
10	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sorrow	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crime	punct
12	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sorrow	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shadows	punct
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 shadows	cop
15	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 shadows	amod
16	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 existed	obl
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 created	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mind	det
19	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 created	nsubj
20	fancifully	fancifully	ADV	_	21 created	advmod
21	created	create	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 shadows	acl:relcl
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 itself	case
23	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 created	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shelter	punct
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 shelter	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 shelter	det
27	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 existed	obl
28	against	against	ADP	_	31 realities	case
29	too	too	ADV	_	30 sunny	advmod
30	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 realities	amod
31	realities	reality	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shelter	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 most	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 most	cc
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 or	punct
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 most	case
36	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 existed	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 dreams	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 dreams	cc
39	prophetic	prophetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 dreams	amod
40	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 most	parataxis
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 which	case
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 yield	obl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 dreamer	det
44	dreamer	dreamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 yield	nsubj
45	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	44 dreamer	nmod:unmarked
46	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 yield	aux
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 yield	advmod
48	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 dreams	acl:relcl
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 credence	det
50	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 credence	amod
51	credence	credence	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 yield	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 existed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not exist	past · perfect · passive		Evil	most	yet	as a shelter against sunny realities; sorrow and misfortune and crime obl	tree rules
2	is a	past		mere shadows				tree rules
3	create	past	the mind	mere shadows			for mind; fancifully property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Result for itself=Beneficiary
4	not yield	past · do-support	the dreamer dreamer	a waking credence	prophetic dreams			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent credence=Theme to which=Goal
5	wake	gerund						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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