Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 66

Indeed, it had heretofore been a great inconvenience to these poor animals, that, whenever they wished to eat a mouthful of grass, the fire out of their nostrils had shriveled it up, before they could manage to crop it.

Who acts: nature, streets · What happens: have, be, wish, eat, shrivel up, manage · To what, where: great inconvenience, mouthful, that, nature

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nature, streets), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	heretofore	heretofore	ADV	_	9 inconvenience	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 inconvenience	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 inconvenience	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 inconvenience	amod
9	inconvenience	inconvenience	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 animals	case
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 animals	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 animals	amod
13	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 inconvenience	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 shriveled	punct
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 shriveled	nsubj:pass
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wished	punct
17	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 wished	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wished	nsubj
19	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 shriveled	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 eat	mark
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wished	xcomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mouthful	det
23	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eat	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 grass	case
25	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mouthful	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fire	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fire	det
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 shriveled	nsubj:pass
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 nostrils	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 nostrils	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 nostrils	nmod:poss
32	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fire	nmod
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 shriveled	aux
34	shriveled	shrivel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 inconvenience	parataxis
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 shriveled	obj
36	up	up	ADP	_	34 shriveled	compound:prt
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 manage	punct
38	before	before	SCONJ	_	41 manage	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 manage	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 manage	aux
41	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 shriveled	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 crop	mark
43	crop	crop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 manage	xcomp
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 crop	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	nature		indeed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	participle		a great inconvenience	to this poor animals; heretofore property	tree rules
3	wish	past	streets = street		whenever property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	streets = street not said here	a mouthful of grass		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Patient
5	shrivel up	past · perfect · passive		that		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient it=Result
6	manage	could	streets = street			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	crop	to-infinitive	streets = street not said here	nature		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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