Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 6

It was idle, however, to imagine that an airy guest from Monument Mountain, Bald Summit, and old Graylock, shaggy with primeval forests, could see anything to admire in my poor little hillside, with its growth of frail and insect-eaten locust trees.

Who acts: place, old Graylock, anything, frail · What happens: be, imagine, see, admire, eat, grow · To what, where: anything, poor little hillside

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 (place, old Graylock, anything, frail), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 idle	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 idle	cop
3	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 imagine	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	8 imagine	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 imagine	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 imagine	mark
8	imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 idle	parataxis
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 guest	mark
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 guest	det
11	airy	airy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 guest	amod
12	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 imagine	ccomp
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 Monument	case
14	Monument	Monument	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 guest	nmod
15	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Monument	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Summit	punct
17	Bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Summit	amod
18	Summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 guest	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 see	cc
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Graylock	amod
22	Graylock	Graylock	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 see	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shaggy	punct
24	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Graylock	amod
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 forests	case
26	primeval	primeval	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 forests	compound
27	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shaggy	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Graylock	punct
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 idle	parataxis
31	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 see	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 admire	mark
33	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 see	xcomp
34	in	in	ADP	_	38 hillside	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 hillside	nmod:poss
36	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hillside	amod
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hillside	amod
38	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 admire	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 growth	punct
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 growth	case
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 growth	nmod:poss
42	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 admire	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 frail	case
44	frail	frail	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 growth	nmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 trees	cc
46	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 eaten	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 insect	punct
48	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 trees	amod
49	locust	locust	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 trees	compound
50	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 growth	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 idle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	place			idle property	tree rules
2	imagine	to-infinitive				however property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	see	could	old Graylock	anything			tree rules
4	admire	to-infinitive	anything not said here		my poor little hillside	with place's growth of frail and eaten locust trees	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	eat	participle					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	grow		frail				nom growth «process intransitive»: of=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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