Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 73
If so I shall be very sorry for the little that I have had to do with the matter, in encouraging these first beginnings.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, have, do, encourage · To what, where: first beginnings
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), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 so | mark |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 sorry | advcl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sorry | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sorry | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sorry | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 sorry | advmod |
| 7 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 little | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sorry | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 had | aux |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 sorry | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 had | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 matter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 matter | det |
| 19 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 encouraging | punct |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 encouraging | mark |
| 22 | encouraging | encourage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 do | advcl |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 beginnings | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 beginnings | amod |
| 25 | beginnings | beginning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 encouraging | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | I | for the little; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | with the matter | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | encourage | gerund | I not said here | this first beginnings | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beginning=Theme |
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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