Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 59

I made all sorts of inquiries about the children, not doubting that there would be great eagerness to hear of their welfare, among some good little folks who have written to me, to ask for another volume of myths.

Who acts: I, doubting · What happens: make, not doubt, be, hear, write, ask · To what, where: sorts, great eagerness, good little folks, me, inquiries

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, doubting), 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sorts	det
4	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 inquiries	case
6	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sorts	nmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 children	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 inquiries	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 doubting	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 doubting	advmod
12	doubting	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 eagerness	csubj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 be	mark
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 be	expl
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 be	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 eagerness	cop
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 eagerness	amod
18	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 hear	mark
20	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 eagerness	acl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 welfare	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 welfare	nmod:poss
23	welfare	welfare	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hear	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 folks	punct
25	among	among	ADP	_	29 folks	case
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 folks	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 folks	amod
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 folks	amod
29	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eagerness	conj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 written	nsubj:pass
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 written	aux
32	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 folks	acl:relcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 written	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 ask	punct
36	to	to	PART	_	37 ask	mark
37	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 volume	case
39	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	40 volume	det
40	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ask	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 myths	case
42	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 volume	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	I	all sorts of inquiries about the children			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Product
2	not doubt	gerund					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	infinitive	doubting	great eagerness and some good little folks			tree rules
4	hear	to-infinitive	I not said here			of eagerness's welfare	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of welfare=Stimulus
5	write	present · perfect · passive		some good little folks	me		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to i=Recipient
6	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive				for another volume of myths	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sort			inquiries about the children			nom sort «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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