Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 38

To tell you the truth, foolish as it may seem, she was half inclined to turn round and run away.

Who acts: it · What happens: tell, seem, incline, turn round, run away · To what, where: truth, you, flower · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (it), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 truth	det
5	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 foolish	punct
7	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 truth	amod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 seem	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seem	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 seem	aux
11	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 foolish	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 inclined	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 inclined	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 inclined	aux:pass
15	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	16 inclined	advmod
16	inclined	incline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tell	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 turn	mark
18	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 inclined	xcomp
19	round	round	ADV	_	18 turn	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 run	cc
21	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 turn	conj
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 run	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		the truth	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient truth=Topic
2	seem	may	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	incline	past · passive		flower		half property	tree rules
4	turn round	to-infinitive				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	run away	infinitive				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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