Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 125

He seemed as fond of his three-headed dog as if it had been a sweet little spaniel, with silken ears and curly hair.

Who acts: Pluto, dog · What happens: seem, be · To what, where: sweet little spaniel

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 (Pluto, dog), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 fond	case
4	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 dog	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dog	nmod:poss
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 headed	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 three	punct
9	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dog	amod
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fond	obl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 spaniel	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 spaniel	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 spaniel	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spaniel	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 spaniel	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 spaniel	det
17	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 spaniel	amod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 spaniel	amod
19	spaniel	spaniel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ears	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 ears	case
22	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ears	amod
23	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 spaniel	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hair	cc
25	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hair	amod
26	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ears	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Pluto					fond property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	dog	a sweet little spaniel and silken ears and curly hair					tree rules

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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