Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 83
On the homeward voyage, the fourteen youths and damsels were in excellent spirits, as you will easily suppose.
Who acts: fourteen youths, you · What happens: be, suppose · To what, where: excellent spirits
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 (fourteen youths, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 voyage | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 voyage | det |
| 3 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 voyage | compound |
| 4 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spirits | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 voyage | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youths | det |
| 7 | fourteen | fourteen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 youths | amod |
| 8 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 spirits | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 damsels | cc |
| 10 | damsels | damsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 youths | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 spirits | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 spirits | case |
| 13 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spirits | amod |
| 14 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 suppose | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 suppose | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 suppose | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 suppose | aux |
| 19 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 20 suppose | advmod |
| 20 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 spirits | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 spirits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fourteen youths and damsels | excellent spirits | on the homeward voyage | tree rules | |||
| 2 | suppose | future | you | excellent spirits not said here | easily property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent spirit=Attribute |
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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