Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 28
And, in truth, what a pair of shoulders they must have been!
Who acts: truth · What happens: pair, be
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 (truth), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 been | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 truth | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 truth | case |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 been | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pair | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 pair | nsubj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pair | det |
| 8 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 truth | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 shoulders | case |
| 10 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pair | nmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 been | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 been | aux |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 been | aux |
| 14 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 been | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pair | truth and a pair | of shoulders | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | must · perfect | truth and a pair | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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