Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 20

It seemed as if he were doomed to lose everybody whom he loved, or to see them perish in one way or another.

Who acts: It, Cadmus, people · What happens: seem, doom, lose, love, see, perish · To what, where: Cadmus, everybody, people, one way

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Cadmus, people), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 doomed	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 doomed	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 doomed	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doomed	aux:pass
7	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seemed	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 lose	mark
9	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 doomed	xcomp
10	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 lose	obj
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 loved	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 loved	nsubj
13	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 everybody	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 see	xcomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 way	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 way	nummod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 perish	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 another	cc
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 way	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	seem	past	It			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	doom a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		Cadmus		tree rules
3	lose	to-infinitive		everybody		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Eventuality
4	love	past	Cadmus			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
5	see	to-infinitive		people		tree rules
6	perish	infinitive	people not said here		one way	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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