Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 85
It would grieve us to the heart, if you and your nine and forty brave companions should be eaten up, at fifty mouthfuls, by this execrable dragon."
Who acts: difficulty · What happens: grieve, eat up · To what, where: us, you
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 (difficulty), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grieve | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 grieve | aux |
| 3 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 grieve | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heart | det |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grieve | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eaten | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 eaten | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 eaten | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 eaten | cc |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 companions | nmod:poss |
| 13 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 companions | nummod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 forty | cc |
| 15 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 nine | conj |
| 16 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 companions | amod |
| 17 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 eaten | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 eaten | aux:pass |
| 20 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 grieve | parataxis |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 eaten | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mouthfuls | punct |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 mouthfuls | case |
| 24 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 mouthfuls | nummod |
| 25 | mouthfuls | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 eaten | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dragon | punct |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 dragon | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 dragon | det |
| 29 | execrable | execrable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dragon | amod |
| 30 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grieve | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grieve | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 grieve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | would | difficulty | us | to the heart; by this execrable dragon | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | eat up a condition, not said to happen | should · passive | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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