Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 123

But, my stars, what a strange dog it was!

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 stars	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stars	punct
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 stars	nmod:poss
4	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 stars	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dog	det
8	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dog	amod
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 was	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dog	acl:relcl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 stars	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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