Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 36

There was no lack of wonderful events, as you may judge from what you have already heard.

Who acts: lack, you · What happens: be, judge, hear, lack · To what, where: wonderful events

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 (lack, you), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 lack	det
4	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 events	case
6	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 events	amod
7	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lack	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 judge	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 judge	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 judge	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 judge	aux
12	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	parataxis
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 judge	obl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	aux
17	already	already	ADV	_	18 heard	advmod
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 what	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	no lack of wonderful events		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	judge	may	you			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
3	hear	present · perfect	you			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	lack			wonderful events		nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient

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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