Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 33

It is a pity his four-footed schoolmaster is not here to carry him safely across on his back!"

Who acts: stream, footed schoolmaster · What happens: be · To what, where: pity, back

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 (stream, footed schoolmaster), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pity	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pity	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pity	det
4	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 schoolmaster	nmod:poss
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 footed	nummod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 four	punct
8	footed	footed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 schoolmaster	amod
9	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carry	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 carry	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 here	advmod
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 carry	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 carry	mark
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pity	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carry	obj
16	safely	safely	ADV	_	17 across	advmod
17	across	across	ADV	_	14 carry	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 back	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 back	nmod:poss
20	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carry	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 pity	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 pity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	stream	a pity					tree rules
2	is	present	Jason's footed schoolmaster			Jason's back; here		across, carry property	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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