Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 74
Your hearts seem to me so exceedingly great, that, upon my honor, I marvel how your small bodies can contain them.
Who acts: hearts, I, small bodies, my · What happens: seem, marvel, contain, honor · To what, where: me, hearts
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearts, I, small bodies, my), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 seem | obl |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 great | advmod |
| 7 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 8 great | advmod |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seem | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 that | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 great | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 honor | punct |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 honor | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 honor | nmod:poss |
| 14 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seem | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 marvel | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 marvel | nsubj |
| 17 | marvel | marvel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seem | conj |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 contain | advmod |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bodies | amod |
| 21 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 contain | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 contain | aux |
| 23 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 marvel | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 contain | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | Your hearts | me | upon my honor; great property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | marvel | present | I | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | contain | can | your small bodies | hearts = heart | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | honor | my | nom honor «communication transitive»: 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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