Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 54
These ugly wretches were in the habit of snatching away his dinner, and allowed him no peace of his life.
Who acts: ugly wretches, habit · What happens: be, snatch away, allow, pacify · To what, where: habit, dinner, peace, king, life
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 (ugly wretches, habit), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 wretches | det |
| 2 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wretches | amod |
| 3 | wretches | wretch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 habit | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 habit | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 habit | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 habit | det |
| 7 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 snatching | mark |
| 9 | snatching | snatch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 habit | acl |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 snatching | advmod |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snatching | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 allowed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 allowed | cc |
| 15 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 habit | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 allowed | iobj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 peace | det |
| 18 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 allowed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | 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 peace | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 habit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this ugly wretches | the habit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | snatch away | gerund | the habit not said here | king's dinner | away property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme | |||
| 3 | allow | past | this ugly wretches not said here | no peace of king's life | king | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal peace=Theme | |||
| 4 | pacify | king's life | nom peace «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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