Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 51

Immediately the moon shone out as brightly as if all the troubles of the world, and all the wickedness and the ugliness that infest human life, were past and gone forever.

Who acts: moon, ugliness, wickedness · What happens: shine out, infest, be, trouble · To what, where: human life, 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: who acts (moon, ugliness, wickedness), 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	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 shone	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moon	det
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shone	nsubj
4	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 shone	compound:prt
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 brightly	advmod
7	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	4 shone	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	12 troubles	case
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 troubles	mark
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 troubles	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 troubles	det
12	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shone	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 world	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 troubles	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 past	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 past	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 wickedness	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wickedness	det
20	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 past	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ugliness	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ugliness	det
23	ugliness	ugliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wickedness	conj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 infest	nsubj
25	infest	infest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 ugliness	acl:relcl
26	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 life	amod
27	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 infest	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wickedness	punct
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 past	cop
30	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shone	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gone	cc
32	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 past	conj
33	forever	forever	ADV	_	32 gone	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shine out	participle	the moon		as all troubles of the world; brightly, immediately property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	infest	present	the ugliness	human life		vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Destination
3	is	past	all wickedness and the ugliness		past property	tree rules
4	be		all wickedness and the ugliness not said here		forever property	tree rules
5	trouble			the world		nom trouble «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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