Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 43

There seemed nothing else to be expected but that, the next moment, he would fetch his great club down, slam bang, and smash the vessel into a thousand pieces, without heeding how many innocent people he might destroy; for there is seldom any mercy in a giant, you know, and quite as little in a piece of brass clockwork.

Who acts: next moment, foaming, mercy, you · What happens: seem, expect, fetch down, smash, heed, destroy · To what, where: nothing, that, great club, vessel, thousand pieces, many innocent people

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 (next moment, foaming, mercy, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 seemed	expl
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 seemed	obj
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 nothing	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	7 expected	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 expected	aux:pass
7	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seemed	advcl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 that	cc
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 expected	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fetch	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moment	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 moment	amod
13	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fetch	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 moment	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fetch	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 fetch	aux
17	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	parataxis
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 club	nmod:poss
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 club	amod
20	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fetch	obj
21	down	down	ADP	_	17 fetch	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bang	punct
23	slam	slam	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bang	compound
24	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fetch	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 smash	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 smash	cc
27	smash	smash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 fetch	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 vessel	det
29	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 smash	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	33 pieces	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 thousand	det
32	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 pieces	nummod
33	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 smash	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 heeding	punct
35	without	without	SCONJ	_	36 heeding	mark
36	heeding	heed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 smash	advcl
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 many	advmod
38	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 people	amod
39	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 people	amod
40	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 heeding	obj
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 destroy	nsubj
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 destroy	aux
43	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 people	acl:relcl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 is	punct
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 is	case
46	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	47 is	expl
47	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 know	advcl
48	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	47 is	advmod
49	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	50 mercy	det
50	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 is	nsubj
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 giant	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 giant	det
53	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 mercy	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 know	punct
55	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 know	nsubj
56	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 little	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 little	cc
59	quite	quite	ADV	_	61 little	advmod
60	as	as	ADV	_	61 little	advmod
61	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 know	conj
62	in	in	ADP	_	64 piece	case
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 piece	det
64	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 little	nmod
65	of	of	ADP	_	67 clockwork	case
66	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 clockwork	compound
67	clockwork	clockwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 piece	nmod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past		nothing	there		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nothing=Attribute
2	expect	to-infinitive · passive		that			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: that=Theme
3	fetch down	would	the next moment	foaming's great club			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme
4	smash	infinitive	the next moment not said here	the vessel	thousand pieces		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme into piece=Destination
5	heed	gerund	the next moment not said here	many innocent people			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
6	destroy	might	foaming	many innocent people not said here			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
7	be	present	any mercy in a giant		there	seldom property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	know	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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