Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 80

But the briskness of her tone encouraged the young man; and, besides, he had never in his life felt so vigorous and mighty as since taking this old woman on his back.

Who acts: briskness, Oak · What happens: encourage, not feel, take, intonate · To what, where: young man, old woman, 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 (briskness, Oak), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 encouraged	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 briskness	det
3	briskness	briskness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 encouraged	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 tone	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tone	nmod:poss
6	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 briskness	nmod
7	encouraged	encourage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 encouraged	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 felt	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 felt	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 and	punct
14	besides	besides	INTJ	_	22 felt	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 felt	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 felt	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 felt	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 felt	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 life	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 life	nmod:poss
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 never	obl
22	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 encouraged	conj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 vigorous	advmod
24	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 felt	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 mighty	cc
26	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 vigorous	conj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 taking	mark
28	since	since	SCONJ	_	29 taking	mark
29	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 felt	advcl
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 woman	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 woman	amod
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 taking	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 back	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 back	nmod:poss
35	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 taking	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 encouraged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	encourage	past	the briskness of briskness's tone	the young man			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	not feel	past	Oak			vigorous property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	take	gerund	Oak not said here	this old woman	Oak's back		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme on back=Destination
4	intonate		briskness				nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=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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