Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 84

The great sow had been an awful beast, while ramping about the woods and fields, but was a pleasant object enough when cut up into joints, and smoking on I know not how many dinner tables.

Who acts: great sow, I · What happens: be, ramp, cut up, smoke, not know · To what, where: awful beast, pleasant object, many dinner tables

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 (great sow, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sow	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sow	amod
3	sow	sow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beast	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beast	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 beast	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 beast	det
7	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beast	amod
8	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ramping	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 ramping	mark
11	ramping	ramp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 beast	conj
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 woods	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woods	det
14	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ramping	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fields	cc
16	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 woods	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 object	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 object	cc
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 object	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 object	det
21	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 object	amod
22	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ramping	obl
23	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 object	advmod
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 cut	advmod
25	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ramping	advcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 cut	compound:prt
27	into	into	ADP	_	28 joints	case
28	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cut	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 smoking	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 smoking	cc
31	smoking	smoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 beast	conj
32	on	on	SCONJ	_	34 know	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 know	nsubj
34	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 smoking	advcl
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 know	advmod
36	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	37 many	advmod
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 tables	amod
38	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tables	compound
39	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 know	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 beast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	the great sow	a awful beast		tree rules
2	ramp	gerund	the great sow not said here		about the woods and fields	tree rules
3	is a	past		a pleasant object	enough property	tree rules
4	cut up	participle	the great sow not said here		into joints	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into joint=Patient
5	smoke	gerund	the great sow not said here			vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not know	present	I	many dinner tables		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus

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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