Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 7

I have sometimes suspected that Master Chiron was not really very different from other people, but that, being a kind-hearted and merry old fellow, he was in the habit of making believe that he was a horse, and scrambling about the schoolroom on all fours, and letting the little boys ride upon his back.

Who acts: Master, habit, that, little boys · What happens: suspect, not be, be, make, believe, scramble · To what, where: I, hearted merry old fellow, habit, horse, fours · 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 (Master, habit, that, little boys), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 suspected	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suspected	aux
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 suspected	advmod
4	suspected	suspect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 different	mark
6	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 different	nsubj
7	Chiron	Chiron	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Master	flat
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 different	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 different	advmod
10	really	really	ADV	_	12 different	advmod
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 different	advmod
12	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 suspected	advcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 people	case
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 people	amod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 different	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 believe	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 believe	cc
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 believe	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fellow	punct
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 fellow	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fellow	det
22	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hearted	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 kind	punct
24	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fellow	amod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 merry	cc
26	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fellow	amod
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fellow	amod
28	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 believe	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 habit	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 habit	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 habit	cop
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 habit	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 habit	det
34	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fellow	conj
35	of	of	SCONJ	_	36 making	mark
36	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 habit	acl
37	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suspected	conj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 horse	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 horse	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 horse	cop
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 horse	det
42	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 believe	ccomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 scrambling	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 scrambling	cc
45	scrambling	scramble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 suspected	advcl
46	about	about	ADP	_	48 schoolroom	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 schoolroom	det
48	schoolroom	schoolroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 scrambling	obl
49	on	on	ADP	_	51 fours	case
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 fours	det
51	fours	four	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 scrambling	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 letting	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 letting	cc
54	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 scrambling	conj
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 boys	det
56	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 boys	amod
57	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 ride	nsubj
58	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 letting	xcomp
59	upon	upon	ADP	_	61 back	case
60	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 back	nmod:poss
61	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 ride	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 suspected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suspect	present · perfect · passive		I		sometimes property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
2	not is	past	Master			from other people; different property	tree rules
3	is a	gerund		a hearted merry old fellow and the habit			tree rules
4	is	past	Master		the habit		tree rules
5	make	gerund	the habit not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	believe	present	that				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	past	Master	a horse			tree rules
8	scramble	gerund			all fours	about the schoolroom	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about schoolroom=Trajectory
9	let	gerund					tree rules
10	ride	present	the little boys			upon boy's back	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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