Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 75

This showed some intelligence in the oak; else how should it have known that any such person existed?

Who acts: This, such person · What happens: show, know, exist · To what, where: intelligence

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 (This, such person), 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	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 showed	nsubj
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 intelligence	det
4	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 oak	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 oak	det
7	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 intelligence	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 known	punct
9	else	else	ADV	_	14 known	advmod
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 known	advmod
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 known	aux
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 known	nsubj:pass
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 known	aux
14	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 showed	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 existed	mark
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 person	det
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 person	amod
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 existed	nsubj
19	existed	exist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 known	advcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	past	This	some intelligence	in the oak	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent intelligence=Patient in oak=Topic
2	know	should · perfect · passive		intelligence	else property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	exist	participle	any such person			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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