Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 7
Eustace very frankly called the view from my hill top tame; and so, no doubt, it was, after rough, broken, rugged, headlong Berkshire, and especially the northern parts of the county, with which his college residence had made him familiar.
Who acts: doubt · What happens: call, be, break, make · To what, where: Eustace, college residence · 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 (doubt), 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 | Eustace | Eustace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 called | advmod |
| 3 | frankly | frankly | ADV | _ | 4 called | advmod |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 view | det |
| 6 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 tame | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tame | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tame | compound |
| 10 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tame | amod |
| 11 | tame | tame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 view | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 rough | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rough | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 rough | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 doubt | punct |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 doubt | det |
| 17 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rough | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 doubt | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 rough | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 rough | cop |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rough | punct |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 rough | case |
| 23 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 called | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 broken | punct |
| 25 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 rough | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rugged | punct |
| 27 | rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 broken | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Berkshire | punct |
| 29 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Berkshire | amod |
| 30 | Berkshire | Berkshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 rugged | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 parts | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 parts | cc |
| 33 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 36 parts | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 parts | det |
| 35 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 parts | amod |
| 36 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 county | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 county | det |
| 39 | county | county | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 parts | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 made | punct |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 which | case |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 made | obl |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 residence | nmod:poss |
| 44 | college | college | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 residence | compound |
| 45 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 made | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 made | aux |
| 47 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 called | conj |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 made | obj |
| 49 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 made | xcomp |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | participle · passive | Eustace | the northern parts of the county obl; frankly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | no doubt | rough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect · passive | Eustace's college residence | familiar property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product |
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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