Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 78

With a drawn sword hanging over her, the enchantress would readily have consented to do as much good as she had hitherto done mischief, however little she might like such employment.

Who acts: drawn sword, bird · What happens: draw, hang, consent, do, like · To what, where: enchantress, good, mischief, such employment

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 (drawn sword, bird), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 sword	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sword	det
3	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sword	amod
4	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 consented	obl
5	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 sword	acl
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hanging	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sword	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 enchantress	det
10	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 consented	nsubj:pass
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 consented	aux
12	readily	readily	ADV	_	14 consented	advmod
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 consented	aux
14	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 consented	xcomp
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 good	advmod
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 do	obj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 done	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 done	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 done	aux
23	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	24 done	advmod
24	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 good	advcl
25	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 done	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 like	punct
27	however	however	ADV	_	28 little	advmod
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 like	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 like	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 like	aux
31	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 consented	advcl
32	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 employment	amod
33	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 like	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	participle				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hang	gerund	a drawn sword not said here		over bird	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location
3	consent	would · perfect · passive		the enchantress	with a drawn sword; readily property	tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive		good		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
5	do	past · perfect	bird	mischief	hitherto property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality
6	like	might	bird	such employment		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot employment=Theme

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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