Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 67
You cannot imagine in what a mere twinkling of an eye their hot breath shrivels a young man into a black cinder."
Who acts: You, hot breath · What happens: not imagine, shrivel · To what, where: mere twinkling, young man, black cinder
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, hot breath), 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 | 4 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 imagine | advmod |
| 4 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 twinkling | case |
| 6 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 9 twinkling | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 twinkling | det |
| 8 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 twinkling | amod |
| 9 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 imagine | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 eye | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 eye | det |
| 12 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 twinkling | nmod |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 breath | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 breath | amod |
| 15 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shrivels | nsubj |
| 16 | shrivels | shrivel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shrivels | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 cinder | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cinder | det |
| 22 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cinder | amod |
| 23 | cinder | cinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shrivels | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagine | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine | can | You | what mere twinkling of a eye | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | shrivel | present | eyes's hot breath | a young man | into a black cinder result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent man=Patient into cinder=Result |
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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