Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 22

No wonder he could not move it; for it would have taken all the force of a very strong man to lift it out of its earthy bed.

Who acts: wonder · What happens: not move, take, lift · To what, where: stone, it, earthy bed

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 (wonder), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 wonder	det
2	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 move	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 move	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 move	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 move	advmod
6	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 move	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 taken	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 taken	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 taken	nsubj:pass
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 taken	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 taken	aux
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 move	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 force	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 force	det
16	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taken	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 man	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 strong	advmod
20	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 force	nmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 lift	mark
23	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 taken	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lift	obj
25	out	out	ADP	_	29 bed	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 bed	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 bed	nmod:poss
28	earthy	earthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bed	amod
29	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lift	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 move	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not move	could	no wonder	stone		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	take	would · perfect · passive		it		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme force=Destination
3	lift	to-infinitive		stone	stone's earthy bed	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme out bed=Destination

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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