Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 19
O, indeed, I can assure you, there was a vast deal of human sympathy running along that slender thread of silk.
Who acts: I, human sympathy · What happens: assure, be, run · To what, where: you, vast deal, slender thread
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: who acts (I, human sympathy), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 7 assure | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 O | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 assure | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 indeed | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 assure | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 assure | aux |
| 7 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 assure | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 deal | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 deal | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 deal | det |
| 13 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 deal | amod |
| 14 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 assure | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sympathy | case |
| 16 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sympathy | amod |
| 17 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deal | nmod |
| 18 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 sympathy | acl |
| 19 | along | along | ADP | _ | 22 thread | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 thread | det |
| 21 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 thread | amod |
| 22 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 running | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 silk | case |
| 24 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thread | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 assure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | can | I | you | indeed property | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a vast deal | of human sympathy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | gerund | human sympathy not said here | that slender thread of silk | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along thread=Trajectory |
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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