Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 78

But pretty soon, he undertook an affair that made all his foregone adventures seem like mere boy's play.

Who acts: Nor, affair, foregone adventures, mere boy · What happens: undertake, make, forego, seem, adventure, play · To what, where: affair

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor, affair, foregone adventures, mere boy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 undertook	cc
2	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 undertook	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 undertook	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 undertook	nsubj
6	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 affair	det
8	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 undertook	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 affair	acl:relcl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 adventures	det:predet
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 adventures	nmod:poss
13	foregone	forego	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 adventures	amod
14	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 seem	nsubj
15	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 made	parataxis
16	like	like	ADP	_	20 play	case
17	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 boy	amod
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 play	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 boy	case
20	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seem	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 undertook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	undertake	past	Nor	a affair	soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=Eventuality
2	make	past	a affair			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	forego	participle				vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	seem	present	Nor's foregone adventures		like mere boy's play	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	adventure		Nor			nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	play		mere boy			nom play «communication intransitive»: 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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