Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 13

For my part, if I were the owner of the palace, I would bid my gardener cultivate nothing but savory pot herbs to make a stuffing for roast meat, or to flavor a stew with."

Who acts: I, gardener · What happens: be, bid, cultivate, make, flavor · To what, where: owner, nothing, stuffing, stew

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (I, gardener), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 part	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 part	nmod:poss
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bid	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 owner	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 owner	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 owner	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 owner	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 owner	det
9	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 part	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 owner	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 part	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 bid	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bid	aux
16	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 gardener	nmod:poss
18	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cultivate	nsubj
19	cultivate	cultivate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bid	parataxis
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 cultivate	obj
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 herbs	cc
22	savory	savory	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 herbs	compound
23	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 herbs	compound
24	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 nothing	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 cultivate	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 stuffing	det
28	stuffing	stuffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 meat	case
30	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 meat	compound
31	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stuffing	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 flavor	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 flavor	cc
34	to	to	PART	_	35 flavor	mark
35	flavor	flavor	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 bid	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 stew	det
37	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 flavor	obj
38	with	with	ADP	_	35 flavor	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 bid	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 bid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	I	the owner	of the palace	tree rules
2	bid	would	I		for my part	tree rules
3	cultivate	present	my gardener	nothing		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Product
4	make	to-infinitive	my gardener not said here	a stuffing	for roast meat	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent stuffing=Material for meat=Beneficiary
5	flavor	to-infinitive	I not said here	a stew		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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