Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 57
His auditors were even more delighted with the contents of the present volume than with the specimens which have already been given to the world.
Who acts: auditors · What happens: be, give · To what, where: specimens, world
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 (auditors), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 auditors | nmod:poss |
| 2 | auditors | auditor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | cop |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 delighted | advmod |
| 6 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 contents | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 contents | det |
| 9 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 delighted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 volume | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 volume | det |
| 12 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 volume | amod |
| 13 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 contents | nmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 specimens | case |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 specimens | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 specimens | det |
| 17 | specimens | specimen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 volume | nmod |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 given | obj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 given | aux |
| 20 | already | already | ADV | _ | 22 given | advmod |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 given | aux:pass |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 specimens | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 given | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Eustace's auditors | with the contents of the present volume than the specimens; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | present · perfect · passive | the specimens | the world | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: which=Theme to world=Recipient |
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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