Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 124

Why, he was a big, rough, ugly-looking monster, with three separate heads, and each of them fiercer than the two others; but fierce as they were, King Pluto patted them all.

Who acts: mastiff, others, Pluto · What happens: look, be, pat · To what, where: big looking monster, others

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: who acts (mastiff, others, Pluto), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 monster	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 monster	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 monster	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 monster	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 monster	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rough	punct
8	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 big	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 big	punct
10	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looking	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 ugly	punct
12	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 monster	amod
13	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heads	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 heads	case
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 heads	nummod
17	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 heads	amod
18	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 monster	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fiercer	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fiercer	cc
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 fiercer	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 each	nmod
24	fiercer	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 monster	parataxis
25	than	than	ADP	_	28 others	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 others	det
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 others	nummod
28	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fiercer	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 fierce	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 fierce	cc
31	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fiercer	conj
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 were	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 were	nsubj
34	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fierce	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 patted	punct
36	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Pluto	nmod:desc
37	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 patted	nsubj
38	patted	pat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fierce	conj
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 patted	obj
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 them	nmod:unmarked
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 monster	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look	gerund			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	past	mastiff	a big looking monster and three separate heads	tree rules
3	be	past	others = other		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pat	past	Pluto King	others = other	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer

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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