Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 71
Hard as you think his heart is, it would break to lose me.
Who acts: you, hand · What happens: be, think, break, lose · To what, where: heart, me
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 (you, hand), 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 | Hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 think | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hard | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hard | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 break | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 break | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 break | aux |
| 11 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hard | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 lose | mark |
| 13 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 break | xcomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 lose | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | you | father's heart | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot heart=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | would | hand | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lose | to-infinitive | hand not said here | me | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
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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