Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 80
As for his rage, there is no telling what a fiery furnace it had now got to be.
Who acts: furnace, fiery furnace, Hercules · What happens: be, tell, get, rage · To what, where: fiery furnace · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (furnace, fiery furnace, Hercules), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 rage | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 rage | nmod:poss |
| 4 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rage | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 telling | det |
| 9 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 is | xcomp |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 telling | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 furnace | det |
| 12 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 furnace | amod |
| 13 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 what | nsubj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | aux |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 got | advmod |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 furnace | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 be | mark |
| 19 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 got | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | there | as Hercules's rage | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | ||||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | furnace | a fiery furnace not said here | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | to-infinitive | a fiery furnace not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | rage | Hercules | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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