Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 51

For every drop of the pure grape juice there were two drops of the pure mischief; and the danger of the thing was, that the mischief made it taste all the better.

Who acts: mischief · What happens: be, taste

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (mischief), 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 drop	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 drop	det
3	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 juice	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 juice	det
6	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 juice	amod
7	grape	grape	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 juice	compound
8	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	nmod
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 were	expl
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 juice	cop
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 drops	nummod
12	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 were	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 mischief	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mischief	det
15	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mischief	amod
16	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drops	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 danger	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 danger	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 danger	det
20	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 thing	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 thing	det
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 danger	nmod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 made	cop
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 made	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 made	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mischief	det
28	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	nsubj
29	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 danger	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 made	obj
31	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 made	xcomp
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 better	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 better	det
34	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 taste	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past		of the pure grape juice	tree rules
2	is	past	the mischief	make property	tree rules
3	taste	infinitive	the mischief not said here	good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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