Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 38
It is not possible you can have moved it, such a boy as you still are!"
Who acts: earth, you · What happens: not be, move, be · To what, where: you
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 (earth, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 possible | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 possible | advmod |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 moved | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 moved | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 moved | aux |
| 8 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 possible | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 moved | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 boy | punct |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 boy | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 possible | parataxis |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 are | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 are | nsubj |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 are | advmod |
| 17 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 boy | advcl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | earth | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | can · perfect · passive | you | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme it=Result | |||||
| 3 | does | present | you | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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