Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 97

With all their evil designs against him, they pretended to be their cousin's best friends, and expressed great joy at making his acquaintance.

Who acts: nephews, best friends, Theseus · What happens: pretend, be, express, make, design, acquaint · To what, where: great joy, acquaintance

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 (nephews, best friends, Theseus), 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	With	with	ADP	_	5 designs	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 designs	det:predet
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 designs	nmod:poss
4	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 designs	amod
5	designs	design	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pretended	obl
6	against	against	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 designs	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 designs	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pretended	nsubj
10	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 be	mark
12	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pretended	xcomp
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cousin	nmod:poss
14	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 friends	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 cousin	case
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 friends	amod
17	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 be	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 expressed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 expressed	cc
20	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pretended	conj
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 joy	amod
22	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 expressed	obj
23	at	at	SCONJ	_	24 making	mark
24	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 expressed	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 acquaintance	nmod:poss
26	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 making	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	nephews = nephew		with nephews's evil designs against Theseus	tree rules
2	be	to-infinitive	nephews's cousin's best friends			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	express	past	nephews = nephew not said here	great joy		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Theme
4	make	gerund	nephews = nephew not said here	Theseus's acquaintance		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acquaintance=Product
5	design		nephews = nephew		against Theseus	nom design «act transitive»: poss=agent against=obl
6	acquaint		Theseus			nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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