Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 17

And though it was a sad business enough, I rather question whether fourteen young people, without any old persons to keep them in order, could continue to spend the whole time of the voyage in being miserable.

Who acts: breeze, I · What happens: be, question, keep, continue, spend · To what, where: sad business, mariners, order

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breeze, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 question	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 business	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 business	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 business	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 business	det
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 business	amod
7	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 question	advcl
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 business	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 business	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 question	nsubj
11	rather	rather	ADV	_	12 question	advmod
12	question	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	16 people	mark
14	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 people	nummod
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 question	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 persons	punct
18	without	without	ADP	_	21 persons	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 persons	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 persons	amod
21	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 question	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 keep	mark
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 question	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 keep	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 order	case
26	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 continue	punct
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 continue	aux
29	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 keep	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 spend	mark
31	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 continue	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 time	det
33	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 time	amod
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spend	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 voyage	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 voyage	det
37	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 time	nmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 miserable	case
39	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 miserable	cop
40	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 spend	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 question	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	breeze	a sad business			enough property	tree rules
2	question speech: other	present	I				without any old persons	vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	keep	to-infinitive	I not said here	mariners = mariner	order			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in order=Location
4	continue	could	I not said here					vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	spend	to-infinitive	I not said here			time		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	gerund					miserable property	tree rules

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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