Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 19

He was soon so nigh, that there could be no possible mistake about the matter.

Who acts: stranger · What happens: be · To what, where: possible mistake

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mistake	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mistake	cop
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 nigh	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 nigh	advmod
5	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	13 mistake	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 be	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 be	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 be	expl
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 be	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 mistake	cop
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 mistake	det
12	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mistake	amod
13	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 matter	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 matter	det
16	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mistake	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 mistake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	stranger	no possible mistake				about the matter; nigh property	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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