Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 10

Be that as it may, it has always been told for a fact (and always will be told, as long as the world lasts), that Chiron, with the head of a schoolmaster, had the body and legs of a horse.

Who acts: that, world, Chiron · What happens: be, tell, last, have · To what, where: idea, fact, body · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (that, world, Chiron), 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	Be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Be	nsubj
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 may	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 may	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 Be	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj:pass
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 told	advmod
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 told	aux:pass
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 may	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 fact	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fact	det
14	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obl
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 told	advmod
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 told	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 told	aux:pass
20	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fact	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 long	punct
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 told	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 lasts	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lasts	nsubj
27	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 long	advcl
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 had	mark
31	Chiron	Chiron	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 had	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 head	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 head	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 head	det
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Chiron	appos
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 schoolmaster	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 schoolmaster	det
38	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 head	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Chiron	punct
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	ccomp
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 body	det
42	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 legs	cc
44	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 body	conj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 horse	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 horse	det
47	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 legs	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be	infinitive	that			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		idea	for a fact; always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	future · passive		a fact not said here	always, long property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
4	last	present	the world			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	Chiron	the body and legs of a horse		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient

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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