Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 103

Why, he must be a very wicked young fellow indeed!

Who acts: King · What happens: be · To what, where: wicked young fellow

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fellow	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fellow	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fellow	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 fellow	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fellow	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 wicked	advmod
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fellow	amod
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fellow	amod
10	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	appos
11	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	10 fellow	advmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	King	a wicked young fellow				indeed property	tree rules

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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