Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 11
But so cunningly contrived a mizmaze was never seen in the world, before nor since.
What happens: contrive, not see · To what, where: mizmaze, world
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 contrived | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 contrived | advmod |
| 3 | cunningly | cunningly | ADV | _ | 4 contrived | advmod |
| 4 | contrived | contrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mizmaze | det |
| 6 | mizmaze | mizmaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux:pass |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 seen | advmod |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 contrived | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 since | punct |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 since | mark |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 since | cc |
| 16 | since | since | ADV | _ | 9 seen | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 contrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contrive | past | cunningly property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not see | past · passive | a mizmaze | the world | since property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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