Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 52

I let the youthful author talk as much and as extravagantly as he pleased, and was glad to see him commencing life with such confidence in himself and his performances.

Who acts: I, dreamer · What happens: let, be, see, commence, perform · To what, where: youthful author talk, dreamer, life

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, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 talk	det
4	youthful	youthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 talk	amod
5	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talk	compound
6	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	11 extravagantly	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 extravagantly	cc
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 extravagantly	advmod
11	extravagantly	extravagantly	ADV	_	2 let	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 pleased	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pleased	nsubj
14	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 extravagantly	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 glad	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 glad	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 glad	cop
18	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 let	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 glad	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	obj
22	commencing	commence	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 see	xcomp
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 commencing	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 confidence	case
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 confidence	amod
26	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 commencing	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 himself	case
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 confidence	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 performances	cc
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 performances	nmod:poss
31	performances	performance	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 himself	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	past	I	the youthful author talk	extravagantly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Theme
2	is	past			glad property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive		dreamer		tree rules
4	commence	gerund	dreamer not said here	life	with such confidence in dreamer	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality with confidence=Subeventuality
5	perform		dreamer			nom performance «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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