Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 44

How was the blessed sunshine to be thrown into them?

Who acts: blessed sunshine · What happens: be, throw

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blessed sunshine), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sunshine	det
4	blessed	blessed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sunshine	amod
5	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 How	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 thrown	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 thrown	aux:pass
8	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sunshine	acl
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thrown	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the blessed sunshine					how property	tree rules
2	throw	to-infinitive · passive	the blessed sunshine not said here					into legends = legend	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into they=Result

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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