Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 49

This enterprise, you will understand, was, of all others, the most difficult and dangerous in the world.

Who acts: you, enterprise · What happens: understand, be · To what, where: enterprise

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, enterprise), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 enterprise	det
2	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 enterprise	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 understand	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 enterprise	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 enterprise	punct
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 others	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 others	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 others	det
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 was	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 difficult	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 difficult	det
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 difficult	advmod
16	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 others	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dangerous	cc
18	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 difficult	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dangerous	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	future	you	this enterprise not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer enterprise=Stimulus
2	be	past	this enterprise						vn exist-47.1 «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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