Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 16

The vessel, you must understand, was so long, and broad, and ponderous, that the united force of all the fifty was insufficient to shove her into the water.

Who acts: you, vessel, united force · What happens: understand, be, shove · To what, where: vessel, Tiphys, water

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, vessel, united force), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vessel	det
2	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 long	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 vessel	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 understand	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 vessel	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 vessel	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 long	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 broad	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 broad	cc
13	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 long	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ponderous	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ponderous	cc
16	ponderous	ponderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 long	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 insufficient	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 insufficient	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 force	det
20	united	united	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 force	amod
21	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 insufficient	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 fifty	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 fifty	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fifty	det
25	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 force	nmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 insufficient	cop
27	insufficient	insufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 long	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 shove	mark
29	shove	shove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 insufficient	xcomp
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 shove	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 water	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 water	det
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shove	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	understand	must	you	the vessel not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer vessel=Stimulus
2	is	past	the vessel			long property	tree rules
3	be		the vessel not said here				tree rules
4	be		the vessel not said here				tree rules
5	is	past	the united force of all fifty			insufficient property	tree rules
6	shove	to-infinitive	the united force of all fifty not said here	Tiphys	the water		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme into water=Destination

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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