Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 9

They are better than mountains, because they do not stamp and stereotype themselves into the brain, and thus grow wearisome with the same strong impression, repeated day after day.

Who acts: eminences · What happens: be, not stamp, stereotype, grow, repeat · To what, where: eminences, brain, wearisome

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 (eminences), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 better	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 mountains	case
5	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 better	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stamp	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 stamp	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stamp	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stamp	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 stamp	advmod
11	stamp	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 better	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stereotype	cc
13	stereotype	stereotype	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 stamp	conj
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 stereotype	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 brain	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brain	det
17	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stereotype	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grow	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 grow	cc
20	thus	thus	ADV	_	21 grow	advmod
21	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stamp	advcl
22	wearisome	wearisome	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grow	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	27 impression	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 impression	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 impression	amod
26	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 impression	amod
27	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grow	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 day	punct
29	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 day	amod
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 impression	appos
31	after	after	ADP	_	32 day	case
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 day	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	eminences = eminence			than mountains; good property	tree rules
2	not stamp	present · do-support	eminences = eminence				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stereotype	infinitive	eminences = eminence not said here	eminences = eminence	the brain		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
4	grow	present	eminences = eminence not said here	wearisome		with the same strong impression; thus property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wearisome=Patient with impression=Instrument
5	repeat	participle					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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