Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 54

Meanwhile, it is but right to say, he does really appear to have overcome the moral objections against these fables, although at the expense of such liberties with their structure as must be left to plead their own excuse, without any help from me.

Who acts: it, dreamer, structure, liberties · What happens: be, say, appear, overcome, leave, plead · To what, where: expense, moral objections, structure, own excuse · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (it, dreamer, structure, liberties), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	6 right	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Meanwhile	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 right	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 right	cop
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 right	cc
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 right	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 appear	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 appear	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 appear	aux
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 appear	advmod
13	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 right	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	16 overcome	mark
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 overcome	aux
16	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 appear	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 objections	det
18	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 objections	amod
19	objections	objection	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 overcome	obj
20	against	against	ADP	_	22 fables	case
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 fables	det
22	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 objections	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 expense	punct
24	although	although	SCONJ	_	27 expense	mark
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 expense	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 expense	det
27	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 appear	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 liberties	case
29	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 liberties	amod
30	liberties	liberty	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 expense	nmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 structure	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 structure	nmod:poss
33	structure	structure	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 expense	nmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 left	mark
35	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 left	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 left	aux:pass
37	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 structure	acl:relcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 plead	mark
39	plead	plead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 left	xcomp
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 excuse	nmod:poss
41	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 excuse	amod
42	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 plead	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 help	punct
44	without	without	ADP	_	46 help	case
45	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	46 help	det
46	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 excuse	conj
47	from	from	ADP	_	48 me	case
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 help	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 right	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			meanwhile, right property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	appear	present · do-support	dreamer		the expense of such liberties with liberties's structure		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at expense=Location
4	overcome	to-infinitive · perfect	dreamer not said here	the moral objections		against this fables	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot objection=Theme
5	leave	must · passive		liberties's structure not said here			tree rules
6	plead speech: request	to-infinitive	liberties's structure not said here	liberties's own excuse and any help from me			tree rules
7	excuse		liberties = liberty				nom excuse «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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