Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 87
You have grown up from infancy in the fear of this monster, and therefore still regard him with the awe that children feel for the bugbears and hobgoblins which their nurses have talked to them about.
Who acts: You, children · What happens: grow up, regard, feel, talk, fear · To what, where: dragon, awe, nurses, children, monster
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, children), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 grown | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grown | aux |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grown | compound:prt |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 infancy | case |
| 6 | infancy | infancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grown | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fear | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fear | det |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 infancy | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 monster | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 monster | det |
| 12 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fear | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 regard | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 regard | cc |
| 15 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 17 regard | advmod |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 regard | advmod |
| 17 | regard | regard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grown | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 regard | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 awe | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 awe | det |
| 21 | awe | awe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 regard | obl |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 feel | obj |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 feel | nsubj |
| 24 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 awe | acl:relcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 bugbears | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bugbears | det |
| 27 | bugbears | bugbear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 feel | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hobgoblins | cc |
| 29 | hobgoblins | hobgoblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 bugbears | conj |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 talked | obj |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 nurses | nmod:poss |
| 32 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 talked | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 talked | aux |
| 34 | talked | talk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 bugbears | acl:relcl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 talked | obl |
| 37 | about | about | ADV | _ | 34 talked | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | present · perfect | You | from infancy in the fear of this monster | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from infancy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | regard | infinitive | You not said here | dragon | still | with the awe; therefore property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 3 | feel | present | children | the awe | for the bugbears and hobgoblins | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Location for bugbear=Theme | |||
| 4 | talk | present · perfect · passive | children's nurses | children = child | about property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | fear | this monster | nom fear «feeling 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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