Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 86
But here, I am grieved to tell you, happened a sad misfortune.
What happens: grieve, tell, happen · To what, where: I, you, sad misfortune · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | _ | 2 here | cc |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grieved | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 grieved | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grieved | aux:pass |
| 6 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 here | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 tell | mark |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 grieved | xcomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 happened | punct |
| 11 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 misfortune | det |
| 13 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 misfortune | amod |
| 14 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 happened | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | present · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | happen | past | a sad misfortune | tree rules |
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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